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- Title
Ig‐Nobelpreis: Surfende Küken und falsche Elche.
- Authors
Kuschmitz, Paul
- Abstract
At this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, love, sex, and ice cream took center stage. The award ceremony was held digitally, and the winners received their prize as a PDF. In the category of "Applied Cardiology," a study on blind dates was honored, which showed that the heartbeats of people synchronize when they find each other attractive. Other prizes were awarded for research on tail loss in scorpions, obscene rituals of the Maya, and the use of ice cream to prevent inflammation in the mouths of cancer patients. The Physics Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to research teams that studied the flow phenomenon of ducklings. Swedish scientist Magnus Gens received the Safety Engineering Prize for his work on a moose dummy for car crash tests. Lawyers received the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature because their texts are often difficult to understand. Researchers investigated the reasons for this and found that legal documents are less comprehensible than everyday English. A team from nine countries received the Peace Prize for their research on gossip. They examined when people should lie while gossiping and when they should not. Italian researchers received the Ig Nobel Prize in Economics because they mathematically proved that chance and luck play a greater role in success than talent and skill. A team from Japan received the Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering for their work on the design of doorknobs. They discovered that the size of the knob influences the way people turn it.
- Subjects
JAPAN; NOBEL Prize in Economics; NOBEL Prize in Physics; AWARD winners; AWARD presentations; NOBEL Prizes; SCORPIONS; MOUTH; DUCKLINGS
- Publication
Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 2023, Vol 71, Issue 4, p12
- ISSN
1439-9598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nadc.20234133541