Scientist allowed stung by bees won Ig Nobel – The Universal

A graduate student at Cornell University who was left stung by bees 25 body parts and a group of scientists concluded that it is possible for a man procreate 888 children are among the winners Ig Nobel Awards this year, honoring the funny scientific achievements.

Michael Smith estimated was stung about 200 times during his study of bees in 2012. Its conclusion. The three areas of the body where it hurts are stung the nostrils, upper lip and the male sexual organ

“A sting in the nostrils is so painful that it is an experience almost everything the body, “he said.

Other prize winners Thursday night during the 25th annual ceremony at Harvard University are a trio of linguists found that almost all the world’s languages ​​use the expression” huh ” to ask for clarification during a conversation, and researchers found that a corporate CEO takes less professional risks if it was directly affected by a natural disasters in childhood.

The winners with Nobe Prize l be who delivered the awards, and winners receive a cash prize: a ticket of 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, the equivalent of a few US dollars

<. p> Smith shared the Ig Nobel Prize for physiology and entomology with Justin Schmidt, an associate professor at the University of Arizona who designed a pain scale for insect bites .

Your recommendation: Avoid being bitten by the cazatarántulas wasp, insect intimidating aspect found in the southwestern United States and possessing a sting nearly seven millimeters long

“The bite is not toxic. but it hurts like hell, “said Schmidt.

Mark Dingemanse and two colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, won the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature to be determined the word “huh” is used in languages ​​from around the world, including some of the most unusual.

Elisabeth Oberzaucher and a colleague at the University of Vienna in Austria won the prize of Mathematics solved if Moroccan emperor may Moulay Ismael has fathered 888 children-and that is a conservative figure.

Ismael fathered children during his reign of nearly 30 years ending in 1727 . It sounds exhausting, but the bottom line is that yes, it’s possible if I had sex daily. The study found that can be achieved with a minimum of 65 women, and did not need 500 of his harem.

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