How to transform a chicken into a dinosaur? Is it possible to un-boil an egg? Amazingly, scientists have investigated these things and his works-among them a chileno– team were awarded the “anti-Nobel” ironic Harvard.
A mammal, Species to be –including the humana–, takes about 21 seconds to urinate. A Moroccan sultan had 888 children in 30 years. A hen can walk like a dinosaur. All this was seriously studied by scientists who received the humorous Ig Nobel Prizes, better known as the “anti-Nobel” of Harvard University in Massachusetts (US Northeast).
The Ig Nobels are given annually to scientists whose achievements “first make people laugh and then make them think,” according to the slogan of the ceremony that was held on Thursday night at the Sanders theater college. Five Chilean scientists (Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauritius Canals, Rodrigo A. Vasquez and Jose Iriarte-Diaz) won the prize for biology “by noting that, by adhering a stick with a weight to the rear of a hen, it walks a similar to how it is believed that walked the dinosaur way, “say the organizers of the show on its website.
The research, which was published in February last year in the journal scientific journal PLoS ONE, concludes that “manipulate the location of the mass center of the living birds, it is possible to recreate the position and movement of the limbs that bipedal dinosaurs extinct wins”.
In the area of physics, the award went to three scientists from the Georgia Tech University that found that all mammals of more than 3 kg delay exactly the same time to empty their bladders. about 21 seconds
In mathematics, the Ig Nobel committee chose two Austrians who used statistical analysis to determine whether, as the legend says, Moulay Ismail, Sultan of Morocco, could have really conceived? 888 children between 1697 and 1727.
With his four wives and a harem of 500 other women, the scientists concluded that yes, it is possible.
In the category of chemistry, the prize went to a team of Australian and American scientists that “invented a chemical recipe that gets partially de-boil an egg” and return it to its original composition.
In the literature section triumphed an international team that discovered the word “Huh?” or its equivalent in other spellings, exists in all human languages, although it is not known why.
The most sacrifices were, perhaps, the winners of the prizes in physiology and entomology. American Justin Schmidt won this category for creating the Schmidt Pain Index by Sting, which lists the level of pain people feel after bites of different insects, and for the study of which he himself served as a subject to be bitten.
In a similar investigation, his colleague Michael Smith was stung by bees in 25 different places to discover which area of the body where the bite hurts more. For those who want to know the result was. Nostrils, upper lip and penis
In other areas, in addition to research, the committee gave a prize to the police Bangkok to offer a premium to officials who refuse to accept bribes.
AFP
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