Ig Nobel Prizes September 1. Issue Vol. 9. 5 Issue 3. Ig Nobel Prizes Enlarge. The debate on the validity of twin research has recently resurfaced in the field of American criminology, and has major implications for other areas of behavioral. Beast Youve got to see this, Jenna Hager calls to her sister Barbara Bush, using one of their nicknames for each other. Jenna has just discovered a. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. Subscribe and SAVE, give a gift subscription or get help with an existing subscription by clicking the links below each cover image. Twin Of Twins Vol 10' title='Twin Of Twins Vol 10' />Peace pipe Playing the didgeridoo helps chronic snorers and their partners get more restful sleep. Credit Shutterstock. Research involving coffees movement when people walk backward, the diet of the hairy legged vampire bat, and whether cats can be considered liquid or solid took home top honors at the 2. Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The delightfully dubious distinctions, which honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think, were awarded on Sept. Harvard Universitys Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was put on by mirthful maestro Marc Abrahams and the whimsical wits of the Annals of Improbable Research. The Ig Nobel committee didnt award a Chemistry Prize this year, but the research that earned the Fluid Dynamics Prize included the prized chemical caffeine. Jiwon Han was a high school student at the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy when he did his Ig Nobel winning work on the dynamics of liquid sloshing Achiev. Life Sci. 2. 01. 6, DOI 1. His goal To find out exactly what happens when a person walks backward while carrying a cup of coffee. Crack N Gage Games 5730. Turns out coffee tends to spill less when its held by someone walking backward. However, Han notes, walking backward drastically increases the chances of tripping on a stone or crashing into a passing by colleague who may also be walking backwards, both of which would lead to spillage. Study of another beloved chemicalhuman hemoglobintook home the Nutrition Prize. Enrico Bernard and coworkers at the Federal University of Pernambuco identified DNA fragments associated with human blood in the feces of hairy legged vampire bats Acta Chiropterologica 2. DOI 1. 0. 3. 16. ACC2. The bats appear to have developed a taste for people in the absence of avian prey. Enlarge. Cat matter Is this kitten in a liquid or solid state Credit Shutterstock. Solid or liquid Scientists have asked this question about glass, oobleck, and now, cats. University of Lyons Marc Antoine Fardin won the Physics Prize for using fluid dynamics to determine the true state of matter of a feline. In his paper in the July 2. Rheology Bulletin, Fardin concludes, Much more work remains ahead, but cats are proving to be a rich model system for rheological research. People who have sleep apnea and snore may find some relief by taking up the didgeridoo BMJ 2. Battle Gear 2 Ps2 Iso Games. DOI 1. 0. 1. 13. This finding won a Swiss team and a didgeridoo instructor this years Peace Prize. Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer of Central Queensland University claimed the Ig Nobel for Economics for their experiments assessing peoples willingness to gamble after holding a meter long crocodile. People who had negative feelings after holding the croc tended to bet less than non croc holding controls, while people who had no negative impacts from croc handling placed higher bets J. Gambl. Stud. 2. 01. DOI 1. 0. 1. 00. The Anatomy Prize went to James Heathcote of South View Surgery, in the U. 2012 Heritage Softail Driver Backrest here. K., for his landmark paper, Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears BMJ 1. DOI 1. 0. 1. 13. Heathcote didnt really answer the question posed in the title of his paper, but he did verify that our ears grow as we age, on average by 0. A team led by Hokkaido Universitys Kazunori Yoshizawa took home the Biology Prize for the discovery of a female penis and a male vagina in a cave insect from the genus Neotrogla Curr. Biol. 2. 01. 4, DOI 1. Their recorded acceptance speech was filmed in a cave. Enlarge. Twin, know thyself Most identical twins cant differentiate themselves from their twins in photos. Credit Shutterstock. The Medicine Prize went to a team led by University of Lyons Jean Pierre Royet for using advanced brain scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese Front. Hum. Neurosci. 2. DOI 1. 0. 3. 38. University of Romes Matteo Martini and coworkers claimed the Cognition Prize for their discovery that most identical twins arent very good at differentiating themselves from their twins in photographs PLOS One 2. DOI 1. 0. 1. 37. And finally, scientists in Spain won the Obstetrics Ig Nobel for showing that a developing fetus responds more strongly to music that is played electromechanically inside the mothers vagina than to music that is played electromechanically on the mothers belly Ultrasound 2. DOI 1. 0. 1. 17. X1. The finding has even been turned into a device known as the Babypod Spanish patent ES2. B1. The Ig Nobel ceremony can be viewed in its entirety at youtube. National Public Radios Science Friday will air an edited recording of the ceremony on the day after U. S. Thanksgiving. Bethany Halford wrote this weeks column. Please send comments and suggestions to newscriptsacs.