2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

Gord_in_Toronto said:
For some reason they seem even sadder to me this year.

https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/

Sample: PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [CANADA, USA]
Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.
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Not a great year. I was going to say, I have to know what prompted the paper on the usefulness of knives made out of frozen human feces but then I decided that no, I really didn't.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
For some reason they seem even sadder to me this year.

https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/

Sample: PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [CANADA, USA]
Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.
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Maybe we can use this photo in the thread about Trump's mental illness, considering that
we identified eyebrow distinctiveness (e.g., thickness, density) as the primary characteristic supporting these judgments.
Eyebrows cue grandiose narcissism
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Craig4 said:
Not a great year. I was going to say, I have to know what prompted the paper on the usefulness of knives made out of frozen human feces but then I decided that no, I really didn't.
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This one was an attempt to prove or disprove an ethnographic account, which reminds me of my disappointment that the hypothesis of fire-starting bids still hasn't won anything.


I think that Childlike Empress will be thrilled to hear that Lukashenko won his second Ig Nobel, this time in Medical Education.
 
Yes. He shares the prize with several others:

Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan
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I assume he was rewarded for this gem: Lukashenko: coronavirus is psychosis (BalticTimes, March 19, 2020)

"As of March 18, Belarus has recorded 51 cases of Covid-19." At this point it's 75,230 cases and 773 deaths, but that is still nowhere near some of the other award winners.
 
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“Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Alexander Lukashenko, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.”

Leading one to wonder, “what is the sound of one hand clapping....”

NPR’s Science Friday used to broadcast the entire ceremony on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it was always quite funny. Then they had to cut it down to “highlights”.
 
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I’ve definitely seen the story about the subcontracting hitmen somewhere before, but I can’t remember where.

ETA: Possibly the ‘Funny Old World’ column in Private Eye?
 
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Fecal knives? Never thought I'd read the words,

"Despite the hide being cold from refrigeration, instead of slicing through it the knife-edge simply melted upon contact, leaving streaks of fecal matter"

Just before,

"We repeated the experiment using the fecal samples of another team member."
 
Craig4 said:
Not a great year. I was going to say, I have to know what prompted the paper on the usefulness of knives made out of frozen human feces but then I decided that no, I really didn't.
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Dave Rogers said:
I looked it up. Bizarrely, in context it kinda makes sense.

Dave
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I assumed the reference was to Freuchen (him being the only person I was aware of who claimed to have made useful tools from frozen feces). Though that was more a digging tool.
 
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