[28] It was first recorded in January 1798, when John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales. 1, 2010, pp. (3) George Nichols, via audio tape. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint — who gets it, when, what color, and how much. Governor John Hunter later sent the animal's corpse to Joseph Banks at the Literary and Philosophical Society[32] to verify that it was a new species. Wombats have also been a feature of Australian television. 253â268. PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining â by experiment â whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle. If you'd like to help wombats, there are numerous charitable organizations such as the Native Animal Network Association that you can donate to. Are these things real? Knols, J.J.A. PEACE: Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Andreas Voss and Timothy Voss (who are father and son). 6, June 1991, pp. A Personal Perspective, Intestines of Non-Uniform Stiffness Mold the Corners of Wombat Feces, 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster, Spontaneous Cross-Species Imitation in Interaction Between Chimpanzees and Zoo Visitors, Human Saliva as a Cleaning Agent for Dirty Surfaces, Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy by Using a Small-Caliber, Variable-Stiffness Colonoscope, Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products, Assessing the Calorific Significance of Episodes of Human Cannibalism in the Paleolithic, Shouting and Cursing While Driving: Frequency, Reasons, Perceived Risk and Punishment, La Justicia en el Tráfico: Conocimiento y Valoración de la Población Española, Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring With Stamps, Righting a Wrong: Retaliation on a Voodoo Doll Symbolizing an Abusive Supervisor Restores Justice, 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Didgeridoo Playing as Alternative Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome: Randomised Controlled Trial, Never Smile at a Crocodile: Betting on Electronic Gaming Machines is Intensified by Reptile-Induced Arousal, Female Penis, Male Vagina and Their Correlated Evolution in a Cave Insect, A Study on the Coffee Spilling Phenomena in the Low Impulse Regime, What is for Dinner? The common wombat has appeared on a 1987 37-cent stamp and an Australian 1996 95-cent stamp. If you have any pet related items that are in good and clean condition, please take them to your local RSPCA Victoria Animal Care Centre. MEDICINE PRIZE. Dan Ariely of Duke University (USA), Rebecca L. Waber of MIT (USA), Baba Shiv of Stanford University (USA), and Ziv Carmon of INSEAD (Singapore) for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.. REFERENCE: “Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy,” Rebecca L. Waber; Baba Shiv; Ziv Carmon; Dan Ariely, Journal of the American Medical Association, March 5, 2008; 299: 1016-1017. 4398-403. Australia Zoo is a 1,000-acre (400 ha) zoo located in the Australian state of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast near Beerwah/Glass House Mountains.It is a member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA), and is owned by Terri Irwin, the widow of Steve Irwin, whose wildlife documentary series The Crocodile Hunter made the zoo a popular tourist attraction. June 1990, pp. especially in the Outback. [39], Wombat meat has been a source of bush food from the arrival of aboriginal Australians to the arrival of Europeans. REFERENCE: U.S. patent # 7255627, granted August 14, 2007 for a âGarment Device Convertible to One or More Facemasks.â. REFERENCE: âIs Teaching Simple Surgical Skills Using an Operant Learning Program More Effective Than Teaching by Demonstration,â I. Martin Levy, Karen W. Pryor, and Theresa R. McKeon, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, vol. MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE [USA] WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: (1) Author Nick T. Spark , on behalf of John Paul Stapp’s widow, Lilly. REFERENCE: “Fetal Acoustic Stimulation Device,” patent ES2546919B1, granted September 29, 2015 to Luis y Pallarés Aniorte and Maria Luisa López-Teijón Pérez. REFERENCE: and and . 59, no. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, for their inevitable report “Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans.”, [PUBLISHED IN: Human Nature, vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 383-9.]. The 2006 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 5th, 2006 at the 16th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Makoto Imai, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami. REFERENCE: “Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers?“, Donald L. Unger, Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. 155-160. 2-3, November 2003, pp. Their call sounds somewhat like a pig's squeal. ECONOMICS PRIZE: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a device, in the year 2001, that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them. 15, no. 2, 1983, pp. Wombats are rarely seen on circulated Australian coins, an exception is a 50-cent coin which also shows a koala and lorikeet. 63, 2003, pp. REFERENCE: “Preventing Winter Falls: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Novel Intervention,” Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest, New Zealand Medical Journal. [22], Depictions of the animals in rock art are exceptionally rare, though examples estimated to be up to 4,000 years old have been discovered in Wollemi National Park. REFERENCE: Video and other details at , WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch, CHEMISTRY: Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study “Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature.”. 3, 1994, pp. REFERENCES: (published after winning the prize): “Models to Evaluate the Role of Stress in Periodontal Disease,” Robert J. Genco, et al., Annals of Periodontology, vol. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. Hair loss from the head or body is technically called alopecia. REFERENCE: “If You Drop It, Should You Eat It? FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE [SOUTH KOREA, USA] â Jiwon Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee. 22-5. [REFERENCE: “Project Grizzly“, produced by the “National Film Board of Canada. 26, no. Moral Consideration of Plants for Their Own Sake, The Role of Armadillos in the Movement of Archaeological Materials: An Experimental Approach, A Comparison of Jump Performances of the Dog Flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the Cat Flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouche, 1835), Commercial Features of Placebo and Therapeutic Efficacy, Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism. MEDICINE PRIZE: Donald L. Unger, of Thousand Oaks, California, USA, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand â but never cracking the knuckles of his right hand â every day for more than sixty (60) years. REFERENCE: “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit,” Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, and Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 102002, October 2019. LITERATURE: The editors of the journal Social Text, for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials that are native to Australia. 35. The ceremony was webcast live. 9834-9. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Diego A. Golombek. 31, no. Scientists have stumbled across the reason for wombats' unique cube-shaped poo, finding proof you can fit a square peg through a round hole. Patricia Yang, Alexander Lee, Miles Chan, Alynn Martin, Ashley Edwards, Scott Carver, and David Hu, for studying how, and why, wombats make cube-shaped poo. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Manuel S. Barbeito was unable to travel, due to health reasons. 18, no. Knols, Experientia, vol. 20, May 13, 1972, pp. Other significant places named after the wombat includes the town of Wombat, New South Wales. 4, 1979, pp. REFERENCE: “Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds,” Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 2, 2014, e88458. [NOTE: The paper is accompanied by a video.>, WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Bruno Grossi, José Iriarte-DÃaz, Omar Larach, Rodrigo A. Vásquez. 4, 2012, pp. 771-6.]. NUTRITION: John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia, for educating the world about Luak Coffee, the world’s most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia. 17, no. PEACE: The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Phillipines, suppliers of sugary hopes and dreams, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation’s history. 1163-70. 327. no. 22, , no. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Colleague Deborah Wilkes accepted the prize on behalf of Professor Perry. PHYSICS PRIZE: Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, USA, Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University, USA, and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, USA, for analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over. That’s why we give you the references. PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, NORWAY, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh. 33, August 19, 2014, pp. In captivity, they can ⦠12, December 2011, pp. TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PRIZE: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi of Japan, and Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker of the UK, for using slime mold to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks. MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE [BRAZIL, UK, INDIA, MEXICO, BELARUS, USA, TURKEY, RUSSIA, TURKMENISTAN] 56-8. Wombats were classified as vermin in 1906, and were subject of the introduction of a bounty in 1925. REFERENCE: “Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word? ECONOMICS PRIZE: The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money â ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof. EDUCATION: J. Danforth Quayle, consumer of time and occupier of space, for demonstrating,better than anyone else, the need for science education. 81, no. 319, 1999, pp 1596-1600.]. REFERENCE: “A Survey of Frog Odorous Secretions, Their Possible Functions and Phylogenetic Significance,” Benjamin P.C. REFERENCE: âInfant Washer and Diaper-Changer Apparatus and Method,â US patent 10034582, granted to Iman Farahbakhsh, July 31, 2018. PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. 9, September 2007, pp. The goal is always to release the wombat back into the wild when it's ready. G.J. I. Spends most of the day underground! REFERENCE: “Blink-Free Photos, Guaranteed,” Velocity, June 2006, WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes, LITERATURE: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.”. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Jaroslav Flegr, David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan. REFERENCE: Numerous news reports. REFERENCE: “Ponytail Motion,” Joseph B. Keller, SIAM [Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics] Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. Humans are not the only ones who suffer from hair loss. CHEMISTRY: Ivette Bassa, constructor of colorful colloids, for her role in the crowning achievement of twentieth century chemistry, the synthesis of bright blue Jell-O. ECONOMICS: Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California, for using the calculus of derivatives to demonstrate that every financial institution has its limits. 3, October 1, 2000, pp. CHEMISTRY: The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, for using advanced technology to convert ordinary tap water into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers. [41], Wombats have featured in Australian postage stamps and coins. 6, June 2001, pp. PEACE: The Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations. 22, no. Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule,” ACES College News, September 2, 2003. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Jillian Clarke. [Published as “Chewing gum flavor affects measures of global complexity of multichannel EEG,” T. Yagyu, et al., Neuropsychobiology, vol. REFERENCE: “EPA, California Notify Volkswagen of Clean Air Act Violations“, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency news release, September 18, 2015. 477-481.]. 52, vol. 90, no. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Patricia Yang, David Hu, Jonathan Pham, Jerome Choo. CHEMISTRY: Theodore Gray (USA and Switzerland), for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table. 390â5. When attacked, wombats dive into a nearby tunnel, using their rumps to block a pursuing attacker. 673-82. Dogs are welcome at Ruffey Lake Park and there are off lead and on lead areas for you and your furry friend. ART: Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster “Penises of the Animal Kingdom,” and to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to extend his work in the form of a pop-up book. 231-5. PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CANADA, USA] â Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, and Bruno Verschuere, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers. COMMUNICATIONS: Sanford Wallace, president of Cyber Promotions of Philadelphia — neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night have stayed this self-appointed courier from delivering electronic junk mail to all the world. When you see a wombat â a fuzzy little marsupial with a friendly face and calm demeanor â youâll probably immediately want to hug this cool animal. 1806-10. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca’s sister Mariela. 139-56. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Daniel Oppenheimer, MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage“; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.”. PROBABILITY PRIZE: Bert Tolkamp [UK, the NETHERLANDS], Marie Haskell [UK], Fritha Langford [UK, CANADA], David Roberts [UK], and Colin Morgan [UK], for making two related discoveries: First, that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up; and Second, that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again. 39, no. ARCTIC SCIENCE PRIZE [NORWAY, GERMANY, USA, CANADA]: Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears. 92, no. PUBLISHED IN: Social Forces, vol. PUBLIC SAFETY PRIZE: John Senders of the University of Toronto, CANADA, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his face, blinding him. BIOLOGY PRIZE: Darryl Gwynne (of CANADA and AUSTRALIA and the UK and the USA) and David Rentz (of AUSTRALIA and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle, REFERENCE: “Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera),” D.T. The name of the dish is also used by a popular children's book and musical. Ovulatory Cycle Effects on Tip Earnings by Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence for Human Estrus? 111 no. [REFERENCE: Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg,’s original research was published as”Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis,” “Statistical Science,” Vol. REFERENCE: “Effects of Backward Speech and Speaker Variability in Language Discrimination by Rats,” Juan M. Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 2, no. ], PSYCHOLOGY: John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University, mental visionaries, for their leaping conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were â and especially for their conclusion “the focus of the abduction is the production of children. 24, no. 8, 2013, e70585. 70, 1999, pp. MATHEMATICS: K.P. 2, March 2006, pp. They are about 1 m (40 in) in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between 20 and 35 kg (44 and 77 lb). [NOTE: Two days after the ceremony, Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan married each other, in the Netherlands.]. PEACE PRIZE: The SKN Company [RUSSIA], for converting old Russian ammunition into new diamonds. PEACE: Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower. LINGUISTICS PRIZE: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards. BIOLOGY: Dr. Paul Bosland, director of The Chile Pepper Institute, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper. J.E.M.H. BIOLOGY: Robert Klark Graham, selector of seeds and prophet of propagation, for his pioneering development of the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank that accepts donations only from Nobellians and Olympians. 165-78.]. 101-9.]. 3 April 2001, pp. ECONOMICS: The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India. PEACE: Daryl Gates, former Police Chief of the City of Los Angeles, for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together. 433-60. ... Wombat. MEDICINE: Peter Barss of McGill University, for his impactful medical report “InjuriesDue to Falling Coconuts.”, [PUBLISHED IN: The Journal of Trauma, vol. Chiang, Human Toxicology, vol. 3, 1984, pp. 512-519. REFERENCE: “Walking With Coffee: Why Does It Spill?” Hans C. Mayer and Rouslan Krechetnikov, Physical Review E, vol. Microphone, and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matteo Martini, Ilaria Bufalari. You can watch the video on our youTube Channel. 198-200. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: John Mainstone. ç) Yang Kang-Sheng, (æ¨å¹¿ç) Yang Guang-Sheng, and (åæ¾å) Ling Xian Si, five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who managed a contract for a hit job (a murder performed for money) in the following way: After accepting payment to perform the murder, Xi Guang-An then instead subcontracted the task to Mo Tian-Xiang, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Kang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Yang Guang-Sheng, who then instead subcontracted the task to Ling Xian-Si, with each subsequently enlisted hitman receiving a smaller percentage of the fee, and nobody actually performing a murder.
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