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Premi Demografia Ig Nobel 2024 - AUSTRÀLIA, REGNE UNIT
S. J. Newman, per descobrir que moltes persones famoses per tenir vides molt llargues vivien en llocs amb pèssim manteniment d'historials.
- Capellans: registrar naixements confonent dia/mes, o inscriure un fill amb el mateix nom d'un germà gran mort.
- Frau: "oblidar" notificar mort de l'avi per continuar cobrant pensió.
- Sense certificat: regions sense registres fiables.
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hehehehehe. fulfilling a childhood dream now that the #ignobel ceremony is being held outside of the usa. :)
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Premi A la Pau Ig Nobel 2025 - PAÏSOS BAIXOS, REGNE UNIT, ALEMANYA
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field i Jessica Werthmann, per demostrar que beure alcohol de vegades millora la capacitat d'una persona per parlar en una llengua estrangera.
L'estudi va trobar que el consum d'una quantitat baixa d'alcohol (una cervesa de 250ml de 5% per a un home de 70kg) realment millora la capacitat de parlar una llengua estrangera.
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La taille du pénis des citoyens corrélée au PIB de leur pays ? La science progresse, parfois… à coups d’études totalement délirantes.
#science #correlations #humour #igNobel
https://www.lesmotsontunsens.com/la-science-des-etudes-a-la-con-un-domaine-de-recherche-tres-serieux/ -
Am Donnerstagabend (23.4. 18-20 Uhr) ist die Ig Nobel-Tour in der Schweiz (#Lausanne).
Leider ist meine Begleitung kurzfristig verhindert. Ich gehe aber davon aus, dass unter meinen Followern genügend Nerds (m/w/d) sind, die sowas geniessen würden.
Hat jemand Zeit und Lust? Sonst gebe ich das Ticket zurück. (Gratisticket)
Mit @MarcAbrahams und Award-Winning Forschung zu Herzsynchronisation, gelobten Narzissten und der Mikrosymmetrie von Skulpturen.
Und Fun!
#IgNobel
https://nccr-marvel.ch/events/ig-nobel-2026 -
Yesterday, after a wonderful, hilarious and thought provoking #ignobel show at the #uniessen with experiments from @minkorrekt (by @nicolas_woehrl and Reinhard Remfort), we heard from @MarcAbrahams that the Ig-Nobel prize ceremony will be held in Europe because of the political situation in the USA.
Makes you think.... Another reason to #unplugtrump .
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Yesterday, after a wonderful, hilarious and thought provoking #ignobel show at the #uniessen with experiments from @minkorrekt (by @nicolas_woehrl and Reinhard Remfort), we heard from @MarcAbrahams that the Ig-Nobel prize ceremony will be held in Europe because of the political situation in the USA.
Makes you think.... Another reason to #unplugtrump .
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Yesterday, after a wonderful, hilarious and thought provoking #ignobel show at the #uniessen with experiments from @minkorrekt (by @nicolas_woehrl and Reinhard Remfort), we heard from @MarcAbrahams that the Ig-Nobel prize ceremony will be held in Europe because of the political situation in the USA.
Makes you think.... Another reason to #unplugtrump .
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Yesterday, after a wonderful, hilarious and thought provoking #ignobel show at the #uniessen with experiments from @minkorrekt (by @nicolas_woehrl and Reinhard Remfort), we heard from @MarcAbrahams that the Ig-Nobel prize ceremony will be held in Europe because of the political situation in the USA.
Makes you think.... Another reason to #unplugtrump .
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Yesterday, after a wonderful, hilarious and thought provoking #ignobel show at the #uniessen with experiments from @minkorrekt (by @nicolas_woehrl and Reinhard Remfort), we heard from @MarcAbrahams that the Ig-Nobel prize ceremony will be held in Europe because of the political situation in the USA.
Makes you think.... Another reason to #unplugtrump .
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So all that's needed is a UV light emitting at the 270-280 nm wavelength? Inside out shoes for 2-3 minutes tops? Sounds like the sort of gadget that can cost very little when manufactured at scale, and rechargeable. Brilliant – exactly.
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Ich hätte mein Ticket für die Ig Nobel Euro Show am Freitag, den 17.04. in Essen abzugeben (kost nix).
@nicolas_woehrl und Reini von Methodisch Inkorrekt zeigen dort auch Experimente. Wird bestimmt super. -
Ich hätte mein Ticket für die Ig Nobel Euro Show am Freitag, den 17.04. in Essen abzugeben (kost nix).
@nicolas_woehrl und Reini von Methodisch Inkorrekt zeigen dort auch Experimente. Wird bestimmt super. -
Ich hätte mein Ticket für die Ig Nobel Euro Show am Freitag, den 17.04. in Essen abzugeben (kost nix).
@nicolas_woehrl und Reini von Methodisch Inkorrekt zeigen dort auch Experimente. Wird bestimmt super. -
Ich hätte mein Ticket für die Ig Nobel Euro Show am Freitag, den 17.04. in Essen abzugeben (kost nix).
@nicolas_woehrl und Reini von Methodisch Inkorrekt zeigen dort auch Experimente. Wird bestimmt super. -
Ich hätte mein Ticket für die Ig Nobel Euro Show am Freitag, den 17.04. in Essen abzugeben (kost nix).
@nicolas_woehrl und Reini von Methodisch Inkorrekt zeigen dort auch Experimente. Wird bestimmt super. -
La cérémonie des prix Ig Nobel déménage à Zürich!
Je suis surexcitée, même si la raison qui motive ce changement est tragique.#science #ignobel 🇨🇭 #suisse
https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/ -
Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale".
More: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/corporate_jargon_research/
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En même temps ça devenait difficile de continuer à faire de la science *et* de la satire, dans un pays devenu lui-même une caricature du rejet de la science (et de la satire).
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Wow. Even the #IgNobel prize is fleeing the US right now.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/ig_nobel_prize_leaves_us/
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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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The Ig Nobel prizes are moving to Europe because the US is ‘unsafe’ to visit.
The awards, which celebrate the sillier side of science, have held raucous ceremonies that see the winners showered with paper aeroplanes at universities in Massachusetts since 1991.
The 36th edition will be held in the Swiss city of Zurich on 3 September.
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The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/ig-nobel-prize-europe
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Un candidat pour un prix #IgNobel d'honneur en littérature : Ce professeur de l'université de Besançon reçoit à l'assemblée nationale des mains d'un ancien ministre la prestigieuse "Médaille d’or de philologie" décernée par la société internationale de philologie ... problème cette société et son prix n'ont aucune existence institutionnelle et à part lui personne ne les a jamais rencontré.
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, TONIGHT Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, TONIGHT Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, TONIGHT Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, TONIGHT Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, TONIGHT Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Reading the first line of the summary, one might have found one of the favorites for the #IgNobel prize 2026 (via @astropierre.com )
"This crossover study examined the acute effects of masturbation-induced orgasm performed 30 min before maximal exercise in well-trained male athletes."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938425004044#sec0026
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, Friday night, Feb 13 #GarlicMilk #SpicelessJalepenos #Bananas #IgNobel #AAASmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/
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New candidate for #IgNobel prize 2026 :
"Developing super-tortillas to address malnutrition in Latin America"
Mexican food scientist Raquel Gómez-Pliego works to improve the nutritional value of foods through microbial fermentation
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A gaggle of cheerful Ig Nobel Prize winners share their research adventures, in public events in Paris (Tuesday & Wednesday, December 9 & 10). Each has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. #IgNobel #Paris https://improbable.com/2025/11/30/ig-nobel-events-in-paris-december-9-and-10/
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A First candidate for #IgNobel prize 2026 ?
"Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body"
Robert J. Scherrer -
Tickets are now available for BOTH of the Ig Nobel public events in Paris — December 9 and 10 #IgNobel #Paris #ChimieParisTech #EcoleNormaleSupérieure https://improbable.com/2025/11/30/ig-nobel-events-in-paris-december-9-and-10/
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Peak candidate for the #IgNobel 2026:
Here we report “3D necroprinting,” a biohybrid manufacturing technique that repurposes female mosquito proboscides as high-resolution 3D printing nozzles.
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Beyond #NobelPrizes Is a World of Scientific Awards
#Nobels are awarded in only 3 scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.
Can't forget #IgNobel — play on the word “ignoble,” or dishonorable — is a satirical but still hotly anticipated prize that was founded by Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, in 1991. The award highlights peer-reviewed research that “makes people laugh, then think.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html
https://archive.ph/i6rxM -
Beyond #NobelPrizes Is a World of Scientific Awards
#Nobels are awarded in only 3 scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.
Can't forget #IgNobel — play on the word “ignoble,” or dishonorable — is a satirical but still hotly anticipated prize that was founded by Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, in 1991. The award highlights peer-reviewed research that “makes people laugh, then think.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html
https://archive.ph/i6rxM -
Beyond #NobelPrizes Is a World of Scientific Awards
#Nobels are awarded in only 3 scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.
Can't forget #IgNobel — play on the word “ignoble,” or dishonorable — is a satirical but still hotly anticipated prize that was founded by Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, in 1991. The award highlights peer-reviewed research that “makes people laugh, then think.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html
https://archive.ph/i6rxM -
Beyond #NobelPrizes Is a World of Scientific Awards
#Nobels are awarded in only 3 scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.
Can't forget #IgNobel — play on the word “ignoble,” or dishonorable — is a satirical but still hotly anticipated prize that was founded by Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, in 1991. The award highlights peer-reviewed research that “makes people laugh, then think.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html
https://archive.ph/i6rxM -
Beyond #NobelPrizes Is a World of Scientific Awards
#Nobels are awarded in only 3 scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.
Can't forget #IgNobel — play on the word “ignoble,” or dishonorable — is a satirical but still hotly anticipated prize that was founded by Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, in 1991. The award highlights peer-reviewed research that “makes people laugh, then think.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/science/awards-prizes-non-nobels.html
https://archive.ph/i6rxM -
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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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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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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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 ...
