Nobel Prize - nah ! IgNobei prize - yep !

[Mbitr]

We’ve all heard of the prestigious Nobel awards for services to mankind , but have you heard of the Ig Nobel Prize ? These are awarded“ For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK”
https://www.improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners/

Upside-down rhino research wins Ig Nobel Prize https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58507100

The 31st Annual awards produced 10 winners this year including

- Ecology Award - “The wasted chewing gum bacteriome” - an analysis of which bacteria reside in chewing gum stuck on a pavement

- Medicine Prize- “Can Sex Improve Nasal Function?” - An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function- demonstrating that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing.

-Transportation Prize - “ THE PULMONARY AND METABOLIC EFFECTS OF SUSPENSION BY THE FEET COMPARED WITH LATERAL RECUMBENCY IN IMMOBILIZED BLACK RHINOCEROSES (DICEROS BICORNIS) CAPTURED BY AERIAL DARTING” - is it better to transport Rhinos upside hanging by their feet or just transporting them on their side .

All information is taken from both the aforementioned articles and Honestly- both the articles are worth a read 

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[bitbollo]

thanks for share. I will add another 2 articles to this shortlist...

ECONOMICS PRIZE [FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, UK]:
Pavlo Blavatskyy, for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption.
REFERENCE: “Obesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post‐Soviet Countries ,” Pavlo Blavatskyy, Economic of Transition and Institutional Change, vol. 29, no. 2, 2021, pp. 343-356.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Pavlo Blavatskyy

PHYSICS PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, ITALY, TAIWAN, USA]:
Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, and Federico Toschi, for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do not constantly collide with other pedestrians.
REFERENCE: “Physics-based modeling and data representation of pairwise interactions among pedestrians,” Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper A. Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, and Federico Toschi, Physical Review E, vol. 98, no. 062310, 2018.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi,, Federico Toschi

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- Medicine Prize- “Can Sex Improve Nasal Function?” - An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function- demonstrating that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing.