#ignobel — Public Fediverse posts
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Should be an IgNobel Prize winner. :-)
"In a test of the device, healthy college-age volunteers who wore sensors farted an average of 32 times a day. But that figure varied from a minimum of four flatus daily to a maximum of 59. Eating high fiber gumdrops caused 36 of 38 participants to break wind more often, the researchers found."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/smart-underwear-human-fart-frequency
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8-Oct-2025
University of Calgary scientists want your #toenailClippings for a study related to #lungCancer
Measuring levels of certain #radioactive isotopes in #toenails may reveal a person’s long-term exposure to #radon gas and potentially lung #cancer riskcompetition for the next round of #ignobel prizes will be fierce ...
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German researchers tested if side effects (e.g., a burning nose from a nasal spray) could enhance treatment. Turns out, they do! People felt less pain with placebo sprays causing mild side effects, believing "the meds work."
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae132
This makes us rethink: could even mild sensations (bitter taste, slight burning) make drugs seem more effective? 🤔 No wonder this study won an #IgNobelPrize - it’s both funny and thought-provoking!
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2024 #IgNobel award winner for #demography was #SaulJustinNewman, for detective work to discover that many of the people famous for having the longest lives lived in places that had lousy birth-and-death recordkeeping. #auspol #LifeSpan #BlueZones
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Meet the winners of the 2024 #IgNobel Prizes
The #IgNobelPrizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think."
Curiosity is the driving force behind all #science, which may explain why so many scientists sometimes find themselves going in some decidedly #eccentric research directions.
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@arstechnica
Cost of party balloons about to sky-rocket?Wouldn't it be cheaper to fly patients to the Moon and back to be medically scanned there than bring the 3He down here? LOL
Surely this insanely speculative BS is up for an #IgNobel prize?!
#Helium #Helium3 #He3 #3He #Moon #NMR #MRI #cryogenics #fusion #Sun #LOLZ
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The 2023 Ig-Nobel Prize Winners - Chemistry And Geology Prize - Explaining Why Many Scientists Like To Lick Rocks
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https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/ <-- 2023 Ig-Nobel prize page
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https://www.palass.org/publications/newsletter/eating-fossils <-- shared paper
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize <-- Ig-Novel Wiki page
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[I have licked MANY a rock!]
#geology #geologist #lickingrocks #fieldwork #ignobel #ignobel #rock #licking #paleontology #sandstone #mudstone #siltstone #technique #fieldtechnique #stratigraphy #science #humour #humor