Encyclopedia Sciplayer made these two videos, each about a different Ig Nobel Prize winner: “Why can itch can be relieved by mirror scratching”: “How do wombats make cubed poo”:
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Assessing the Relation Between Itching and Scratching
The quest advances, scratch by scratch, in the search for an excellent rodent itch model: “Quantitative assessment of directed hind limb scratching behavior as a rodent itch model,” Hiroshi Nojima and E. Carstens, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 126, no. 2, June 2003, pp. 137-43. The authors, at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan and […]
Ig Nobel-winning scratch ‘n sniff, and nuclear power plant safety
In Ig Nobel Prize-winning invention is now being used, insistently, to help protect nuclear power plants. The 1993 Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to James Campbell and Gaines Campbell of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, dedicated deliverers of fragrance, for inventing scent strips [also known as “scratch ‘n sniff” strips], the odious method by which perfume […]
A science head-scratcher about lice
Headlice are on many people’s minds, one way or another. This study involves two ways: “Headlice eradication as everyday engagement with science: An analysis of online parenting discussions,” Christine Hine [pictured here], Public Understanding of Science, September 3, 2012. The author, at the University of Surrey, UK, explains: “This paper focuses on the way in […]
The suggestibility of itching and scratching, videorecorded
Observations During Itch-Inducing Lecture is a study published by German researchers in the year 2000. It delivers exactly what the title promises. Professor Uwe Gieler [pictured here] at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen and two colleagues begin with the basics: “Itching is defined as a sensation associated with an impulse to scratch.” They invited people to attend a […]