{"id":1167,"date":"2012-09-23T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2012-10-08T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:12:43","slug":"2012-ig-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/2012-ig-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Ig Nobel prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Ig Nobel prize<\/a> website:<\/p>\n

PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE<\/strong>: Anita Eerland<\/a> and Rolf Zwaan<\/a> [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe<\/a> [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller”<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller: Posture-Modulated Estimation<\/a>,” Anita Eerland, Tulio M. Guadalupe and Rolf A. Zwaan, Psychological Science, vol. 22 no. 12, December 2011, pp. 1511-14.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Tulio Guadalupe. [NOTE: Two days after the ceremony, Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan will marry each other, in the Netherlands.]<\/p>\n

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PEACE PRIZE<\/strong>: The SKN Company<\/a> [RUSSIA], for converting old Russian ammunition into new diamonds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Igor Petrov<\/p>\n

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ACOUSTICS PRIZE<\/strong>: Kazutaka Kurihara<\/a> and Koji Tsukada<\/a> [JAPAN] for creating the SpeechJammer \u2014 a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback<\/a>“, Kazutaka Kurihara, Koji Tsukada, arxiv.org\/abs\/1202.6106. February 28, 2012.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada<\/p>\n

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NEUROSCIENCE PRIZE<\/strong>: Craig Bennett<\/a>, Abigail Baird<\/a>, Michael Miller<\/a>, and George Wolford<\/a> [USA], for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere \u2014 even in a dead salmon.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction<\/a>,” Craig M. Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, and George L. Wolford, 2009.
\nREFERENCE: “Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Multiple Comparisons Correction<\/a>,” Craig M. Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, and George L. Wolford, Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-5.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford<\/p>\n

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CHEMISTRY PRIZE<\/strong>: Johan Pettersson [SWEDEN and RWANDA]. for solving the puzzle<\/a> of why, in certain houses in the town of Andersl\u00f6v, Sweden, people’s hair turned green<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE THE CEREMONY: Johan Pettersson<\/p>\n

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LITERATURE PRIZE<\/strong>: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies<\/a>,” US Government General Accountability Office report GAO-12-480R, May 10, 2012.<\/p>\n

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PHYSICS PRIZE<\/strong>: Joseph Keller<\/a> [USA], and Raymond Goldstein<\/a> [USA and UK], Patrick Warren<\/a>, and Robin Ball<\/a> [UK], for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Shape of a Ponytail and the Statistical Physics of Hair Fiber Bundles<\/a>.” Raymond E. Goldstein, Patrick B. Warren, and Robin C. Ball, Physical Review Letters, vol. 198, no. 7, 2012.
\nREFERENCE: “Ponytail Motion<\/a>,” Joseph B. Keller, SIAM [Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics] Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 70, no. 7, 2010, pp. 2667\u201372.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Joseph Keller, Raymond Goldstein, Patrick Warren, Robin Ball<\/p>\n

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FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE<\/strong>: Rouslan Krechetnikov<\/a> [USA, RUSSIA, CANADA] and Hans Mayer [USA] for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Walking With Coffee: Why Does It Spill?<\/a>” Hans C. Mayer and Rouslan Krechetnikov, Physical Review E, vol. 85, 2012.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Rouslan Krechetnikov<\/p>\n

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ANATOMY PRIZE<\/strong>: Frans de Waal<\/a> [The Netherlands and USA] and Jennifer Pokorny<\/a> [USA] for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually from seeing photographs of their rear ends.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Faces and Behinds: Chimpanzee Sex Perception<\/a>” Frans B.M. de Waal and Jennifer J. Pokorny, Advanced Science Letters, vol. 1, 99\u2013103, 2008.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Frans de Waal and Jennifer Pokorny<\/p>\n

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MEDICINE PRIZE<\/strong>: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan<\/a> and Michel Antonietti<\/a> [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.<\/p>\n

REFERENCE: “Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery<\/a>,” Spiros D Ladas, George Karamanolis, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, World Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 13, no. 40, October 2007, pp. 5295\u20138.
\nREFERENCE: “Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect<\/a> Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe,” E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrott\u00e9, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, vol. 16, no. 12, December 2004, pp 1315-8.<\/p>\n

ATTENDING THE THE CEREMONY: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Ig Nobel prize website: PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller” REFERENCE: “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller: Posture-Modulated Estimation,” Anita Eerland, Tulio M. Guadalupe and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ig-nobel-prize","tag-ig-nobel-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}