Painting Cows With Stripes to Prevent Fly Bites Earns Researchers Ig Nobel Prize

These researchers were honored with an Ig Nobel in Boston on Thursday, award – a handmade human stomach model – for funny scientific success. Instead of a big salary, each winner was deleted from one hand.

“When I did this experiment, I was hoping that I would win Ig Nobel. This is my dream. Incredible. Incredible. Incredible.” He said. Kojima appeared on the lines on the stage and was besieged by researchers harassing cardboard flies.

As a result of paint, less flies were pulled into the cows and looked less uncomfortable with flies. Despite the findings, Kojima admitted that it could be difficult to implement this approach on a large scale.

The winners of the year, which is honored in 10 categories, contain a group that develops a researcher who has read a person’s ability to speak a foreign language and a researcher who has read the nail growth for decades of drinking alcohol from Europe.

“At first glance, at first glance, at first glance looked screw and ridiculous in an e-mail interview before the award ceremony. “The same applies to every worthless discovery.

The 35th Annual IG Nobel Prize ceremony is organized by impossible research annuals, a digital magazine that makes people laugh and emphasizes thinking about research. Usually the real Nobel prizes are made weeks before they are announced.

On Thursday night, the celebration ceremony at Boston University has started with a tradition for a long time: the audience pelled the stage with paper planes. Many of those who could not participate were read by the real Nobel Prize, including Esther Dufflo, who won the Nobel Prize for his experimental approach to alleviate global poverty.

There was a mini opera for gastroenterologists and patients inspired by digestive theme this year. A few people said all the difficulties of treating stomach insects and by patients who brought them pizza and pepper dogs.

There was also a section called 24 -second lesson announced by the best researchers within 24 seconds. Among them was Gus Rancatore, who spent most of his time licking a cone of an ice cream and explained the use of smartphones in the toilet and explaining the work that examines potential risk for hemorrhoids.

When any winner looks stray for a long time, a man wearing a dress on his dress would appear with them and shout again again and again, “Please stop. I was bored”.

Among the other winners this year, there was a group examining whether bad smelling shoes affected the experience of using a shoe shelf, and there were researchers who investigated whether Teflon from the US and Israel was a good way to increase the food volume. In addition, there was a team of international scientists who looked at whether alcohol to bats disrupted their ability to fly.

“This is a great honor for us, F Francisco Sanchez, one of the researchers who examined drunk bats from Colombia, said. “Really good. You can see that scientists are not really square and super serious and that they can have some fun while showing interesting science.”

Sanchez found that bats of their research were not often Rotten fruit fans with higher alcohol concentrations. Maybe for a good reason. He said that when they were forced to eat, their flights and echolocations were suffering.

“Actually, they look like what happened to us, San Sanchez said. “When you get some ethanol, you move slower and your conversation is broken.”

Among the most animations of the winners was a team of researchers from several European countries studying pasta sauce physics. One of the researchers is wearing a fake mustache and a cook’s outfit to accept the award, while a large Mozzarella cheese, the other dressed like a ball, and the other by a few people holding wooden pots. They ended by distributing pasta bowls to Nobel Laureates.