The 2023 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced on September 15, 2023, at a virtual ceremony. The prizes are awarded for unusual or trivial research that makes people laugh and then think.
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Here are some of the winners of Ig Nobel Prize:
- Chemistry and Geology Prize: Jan Zalasiewicz for his investigation into why scientists like to lick rocks.
- Literature Prize: Researchers who explored the concept of “jamais vu,” the feeling of finding a familiar thing unfamiliar when repeated in language.
- Mechanical Engineering Prize: A team from Rice University for reanimating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools.
- Medicine Prize: Research into the number of nose hairs in each nostril.
- Communication Prize: Research into brain activity when a person speaks backwards.
- Public Health Prize: Urologist Seung-min Park for inventing the Stanford Toilet, which identifies users by their “analprint.”
- Nutrition Prize: Japanese scientists Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura for their study on how electrification affects food taste.
- Psychology Prize: Psychologists Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz for studying why members of a crowd look up when they see others doing so.
- Education Prize: Research into how teachers’ boredom affects students in a classroom.
- Physics Prize: A team’s investigation into how the sexual activity of anchovies impacts ocean-water mixing and the global circulation of ocean currents.
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The Ig Nobel Prizes are a fun way to celebrate science and research, even if some of the topics are a bit quirky.