The 32ᵉ ceremony for presenting IG Nobel, these awards which reward the most wacky scientific studies – voluntarily or not – but seriously carried out, took place this year again in teleconference.
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With a little more than two weeks ahead of Nobel Prizes which, accompanied by the indispensable compunction for serious things, will punctuate the first days of October, was held, Thursday, September 15, their wacky preamble but no Less scientific: the IG Nobel ceremony. For the – almost – unforgivable who would not yet know this interplanetary event, of which this year was 32 e edition, remember that the Ig Nobel prizes (muddy word game with the adjective “ignoble “) Reward researchers from so -called” improbable “science, the one who poses absurd questions about serious subjects – and vice versa. To use the sympathetic definition that ended up imposing itself, these are studies and experiences that first laugh and then think.
So we laugh a lot to this ceremony, but not with the life of spectators. Pandemic obliges, for the third consecutive year the award ceremony did not take place at the Sanders theater of Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) where the Potache public usually sends paper planes on the stage and where a little girl 8 years old, sassy in devil, enjoined the winners to be silent when their thank you speech is dragged. Sign of viral and digital times, it is therefore online that the improbable under the leadership of his lord was celebrated, the American Marc Abrahams, and with the “presence” of real Nobel prizes which have virtually transmitted the awards at the winners.
The tradition is that several works concerning the human body be crowned and the 2022 vintage is no exception. Thus, in the “Cardiology” category, a study was distinguished showing that, in blind meetings, the attraction of the participants for each other betrayed by the synchronization of their heart rate (and also by that of the electrical activity recorded on their skin). Which proves that symbolizing love with a heart is not so gnangnan as that.
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The IG Nobel of Medicine went to a team from the University of Warsaw having highlighted that cryotherapy likely to calm an inflammation of the mouth following aggressive chemotherapy obtained better results when the Cold agent was made up of … ice cream. Japanese researchers have been rewarded in the engineering sector after being interested in the best way to use your fingers to turn a button …
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