SoT 280: The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes
Channel: Science on Top
Date: 2017-11-08

SoT 280: The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes
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The Physics Prize was awarded to French scientist Marc-Antoine Fardin, "for using fluid dynamics to probe the question 'Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?'"
The Peace Prize went to four doctors and one patient from Switzerland, Canada, The Netherlands and the USA "for demonstrating that regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring".
The Economics Prize was presented to Australian Nancy Greer and American Matthew Rockloff "for their experiments to see how contact with a live crocodile affects a person's willingness to gamble".
The Anatomy Prize was won by James Heathcote from the UK, for his medical research study "Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?"
The Biology Prize went to two scientists from Japan, one from Brazil, and one from Switzerland "for their discovery of a female penis, and a male vagina, in a cave insect".
The Fluid Dynamics Prize was awarded to South Korean Jiwon Han, "for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee".
The Nutrition Prize was presented to three scientists from Brazil, Canada, and Spain "for the first scientific report of human blood in the diet of the hairy-legged vampire bat".
The Medicine Prize went to five scientists from France and the UK "for using advanced brain-scanning technology to measure the extent to which some people are disgusted by cheese".
The Cognition Prize was awarded to four psychologists from Italy, Spain, and the UK "for demonstrating that many identical twins cannot tell themselves apart visually".
The Obstetrics Prize went to a team from Spain "for showing that a developing human fetus responds more strongly to music that is played electromechanically inside the mother's vagina than to music that is played electromechanically on the mother's belly".

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Chapters:
00:01:30 Solid and liquid cats, didgeridoos and cheese disgust scoop Ig Nobel awards https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/15/solid-and-liquid-cats-didgeridoos-and-cheese-disgust-scoop-ig-nobel-awards
00:06:20 To Beat Sleep Apnea, Try the Didgeridoo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2016/05/19/to-beat-sleep-apnea-try-the-didgeridoo/
00:10:19 Snap that prize up: croc research on gambling habits gets an Ig Nobel https://theconversation.com/snap-that-prize-up-croc-research-on-gambling-habits-gets-an-ig-nobel-84065
00:17:56 Big ears: they really do grow as we age https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/jul/17/big-ears-grow-as-we-age
00:20:59 In This Insect, Females Have Penises And Males Have Vaginas http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/17/in-this-insect-females-have-penises-and-males-have-vaginas/
00:25:27 Scientists Have Found The Most Efficient Way to Hold a Coffee Mug https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-have-found-most-efficient-way-hold-coffee-mug-180960185/
00:29:53 How we discovered the vampire bats that have learned to drink human blood https://theconversation.com/how-we-discovered-the-vampire-bats-that-have-learned-to-drink-human-blood-71654
00:34:46 Deep-seated parts of some people's brains seem to hate cheese, and scientists are trying to understand why https://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-cheese-disgusting-brain-disgust-2016-10?r=US&IR=T
00:40:40 Is That Me or My Twin? Lack of Self-Face Recognition Advantage in Identical Twins http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0120900
00:45:00 Fetus react to musical stimuli http://biotech-spain.com/en/articles/fetus-react-to-musical-stimuli/