TheIg Nobel Prizeswere award last night ! It ’s that fun time of class when we get to enjoy scientists ’ geektastic gage of humor .
The awards are held annually at Harvard University . A highlight this twelvemonth was the Peace Prize , which went to the city manager of Vilnius , Lithuania , for demonstrate that beneficial way of life to deal with lawlessly parked luxury cable car is by crushing them with a jumbo tank . YES .
The chemistry prize for the wasabi dismay run to Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami . They determined the ideal density of airborne wasabi to detect a fervor or other emergency and waken up sleeping people by pass off a pungent horseradish look . They filed apatent applicationfor the wasabi alarm in 2009 . Makes a beeping alarm seem like a out-and-out snooze fest .
I was also thrilled to see that Stanford professor John Perry ’s “ Structured Procrastination , ” which I had already printed out and tacked to my rampart , won the Ig Nobel for literature . “ To be a eminent achiever , always play on something important , using it as a way to avoid doing something that ’s even more significant . ” actor’s line to live by , ally .
Check out the official Ig Nobel prize recap for the residuum of thewinners , include the beetle thatmates with a beer bottleful , lack of transmittable yawn in the red turtle , thescience of sighs , and a work of human conduct when we urgentlyhave to pee .
Watch the honour ceremonial occasion , terminated with demonstrations and performances , here ! Alsowatch thisto discover out what find to scientists whose thank you speeches drone on for too long – we really require a Miss Sweetie Poo for the Oscars .
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