The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize for psychology was awarded to Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his study called “An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children.” Now Radio Onda Cero, in Spain, discusses the importance of Sherman’s glee study.
Year: 2014
Ig Nobel bellybutton-lint pioneer previews this year’s ceremony
A past Ig Nobel Prize winner gives his personal preview of next week’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in an interview with NineMSN: Look down at your bellybutton – discreetly, if you’re at work. Is there fluff or lint inside it? Yes? There’s a very strong chance that it’s blue. The reasons for this only became […]
Medical effects of coffee: Two new insights
Does it matter, medically, whether you drink coffee or not? Here are two further insights into this life-or-death question: “Coffee consumption and hip fracture risk: a meta-analysis,” X.L. Li and J.H. Xu, Journal of Nutritional Science, 2013 Jul 24;2:e23. The authors, at the Medical College of Soochow University, China, report: “Although our meta-analysis has provided insufficient […]
The physics of — and a recipe for making — Murphy’s toast
Ig Nobel Prize winner Robert Matthews devised a recipe for making a culinary delight: Murphy’s Toast. The recipe is included in the new book The Ig Nobel Cookbook, volume 1. In this video, Matthews demonstrates his prize-winning achievement: explaining why buttered toast so often falls on the buttered side.