"Ceremonial safety gesture" from Dr. Stephan Bollinger, winner of the 2009 IgNobel Peace Prize for determining whether it is worse to be smashed over the head with a full beer bottle or an empty one: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013
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The prize for Technology goes to the team who turned mosquito proboscises into 3D printing nozzles: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953
They call it "necroprinting"
I am in awe
(alas I need to answer emails, no more #IgNobel recapping)
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The Biology Prize goes to the researcher who (gently) stepped on venomous snakes thousands of times to see what got them to bite: https://www.science.org/content/article/researcher-steps-deadly-vipers-40-000-times-better-predict-snakebites
(Note: the study was retracted for not getting the proper ethics board approval, although it seemed to be more about the researcher putting himself at risk because he is allergic to both snake venom and antivenom https://retractionwatch.com/2025/03/07/snakes-soft-stepping-retraction-butantan-institute/ )
Edit: this one @ml links was not: https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jzo.70132
@nev that one tried to win both an IgNobel and a Darwin award?
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@nev that one tried to win both an IgNobel and a Darwin award?
@gherhartd the rare Twofer
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(alas I need to answer emails, no more #IgNobel recapping)
"If you didn't win an award, or especially if you did, better luck next year" - @MarcAbrahams
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The prize for Technology goes to the team who turned mosquito proboscises into 3D printing nozzles: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9953
They call it "necroprinting"
I am in awe
@nev I only caught the last 10 minutes - I'll have to go back and watch the rest!
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This year in lieu of a small child, over-time speakers are ominously crowded off stage by a trio of bananas.
@nev They *were* pretty intimidating.
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The #Economics Prize goes to Dr. Paul K. Piff & co. for this 2012 study showing that (among other things) rich people steal more candy from a dish marked "for children" https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
@nev sounds worthy of Noble prize instead.
