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Title: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: MillCreek on September 10, 2021, 09:52:41 AM

https://www.improbable.com/

https://apnews.com/article/oddities-health-coronavirus-pandemic-animals-us-navy-f92f26f2afd1a279c5ddf7c50fb271bd

Beards, wads of gum, and orgasms to treat nasal congestion.

Title: Re: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: Pb on September 10, 2021, 10:13:16 AM

 =D

Title: Re: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: MechAg94 on September 10, 2021, 10:42:07 AM

I am sure I paid for this at some point up the chain.   :facepalm:

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PEACE PRIZE [USA]:
Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, and David Carrier, for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face.
REFERENCE: “Impact Protection Potential of Mammalian Hair: Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair,” Ethan A. Beseris, Steven E. Naleway, David R. Carrier, Integrative Organismal Biology, vol. 2, no. 1, 2020, obaa005.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, David Carrier

https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/2/1/obaa005/5799080

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Title: Re: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: WLJ on September 10, 2021, 12:25:06 PM

For the cost of just a few cases of beer they could have done the study using college students.

Title: Re: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: 230RN on September 10, 2021, 02:39:32 PM

In formal boxing, I was told that facial hair was undesirable because it caused cuts.

The "because" was a slightly glancing blow with the gloves would tend to slide over the skin, whereas with a beard, it would stretch the skin and tear it.

Anyone else hear it like this?

Anyhow, I always wondered how the grant proposal writers got away with getting money to research stuff like this.  I must learn that skill.

Terry

Title: Re: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: Devonai on September 10, 2021, 05:09:07 PM

An orgasm after a good dose of Viagra isn't going to do anything for nasal congestion (so I've heard, natch).

Title: Re: 2021 IgNoble prizes
Post by: 230RN on September 10, 2021, 06:58:36 PM

Maybe somebody got the areas of "congestion" mixed up.

         =D

Nyuck-nyuck-nyuck.