Ig Nobels: Dinosaur chickens, mammal pee, huh?

This is the theme of this year’s Ig Nobel awards, participated by students from different universities in the world.

Fortunately, this and other important questions have once again been answered through “improbable research” rewarded that the IG Nobel Awards.

Other participants worked for exciting prizes for linking a measured continue with a chicken’s posterior to show how dragons would likely have left, and then for exhibiting that is actually discerning…

To wit: did you know that nearly all known mammalian species empty their bladders in about the same amount of time?

It should be not be a surprise that it was revealed that the most painful areas, now featured on what is called the Schmidt Index, were the nostrils, upper lip and penis.

The prize is given to researchers whose efforts made people laugh first and think afterwards.

Dr Smith donated his own bodyto the cause, carefully applying honey bees to 25 locations and assessing the pain of each sting based on a comparison to his “internal standard” – a sting to his forearm.

Former winners of real Nobels handed out the spoof awards at the ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, organized by Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals. Every victor received a cash award of a Zimbabwean 10 trillion-dollar bill, which is equal to couple of the United States dollars.

His dedication to the cause earned Smith an Ig Nobel prize for physiology and entomology, The Mirror reported.

Professor Colin Raston from Flinders University in Adelaide took out the prize for creating the vortex fluidic device, which can unravel proteins or “unboil” an egg.

And that a chicken with a weight attached to its rear walks like a dinosaur.

For most of us, putting a plunger into the tails of chickens and pretending they’re dinosaurs is just a hobby.

In 17th century, a study found that Ismail the Bloodthirsty had fathered more than 880 children during his 30-year reign that lasted until 1727. The answer: sex one to two times a day with a harem of 65 to 110 women.

Amusingly the Management Prize (the awards don’t exactly mirror the Nobels) went to a team which discovered that “many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that – for them – had no dire personal consequences”.

In a cross-linguistic study, Nick Enfield, from the University of Sydney and his colleagues Mark Dingemanse and Francisco Torreira, from Max Planck Institute for Pyscholinguistics in the Netherlands, sampled 31 languages and discovered all have a word with similar function and near-identical sound as the “huh” of the English language.