Spoof Award Ig Nobel Prize Given To Slippery Banana Research
- 10 years ago
The Ig Nobel prizes are spoof awards that go to strange or silly scientific studies. One of this year’s winners investigated why banana peels are slippery when you step on them compared to apple or orange peels.
The Ig Nobel prizes are spoof awards that go to strange or silly scientific studies.
One of this year’s winners investigated why banana peels are slippery when you step on them compared to apple or orange peels.
The researchers from the Kitasato University in Japan were presented with the award for physics at the annual ceremony held at Harvard University.
This marks the 24th year of the Ig Nobel prize, which is hosted by the Annals of Improbable Research.
Other winners this year include studies that took a serious look at how pork strips can treat nose bleeds, how reindeers react to people dressed in polar bear suits, and why people see Jesus’ face in a piece of toast.
The awards themselves are handed out by former real winners of the Nobel Prize, from the nearly nine thousand nominations that are sent to the Annals of Improbable Research every year.
According to Marc Abrahams, the editor of Annals of Improbable Research, ten to twenty percent of these are self-nominations.
The team of Japanese researchers who studied the lubrication that happens when someone steps on a banana peel say that their research will be used to help design a joint prosthetic.
The Ig Nobel prizes are spoof awards that go to strange or silly scientific studies.
One of this year’s winners investigated why banana peels are slippery when you step on them compared to apple or orange peels.
The researchers from the Kitasato University in Japan were presented with the award for physics at the annual ceremony held at Harvard University.
This marks the 24th year of the Ig Nobel prize, which is hosted by the Annals of Improbable Research.
Other winners this year include studies that took a serious look at how pork strips can treat nose bleeds, how reindeers react to people dressed in polar bear suits, and why people see Jesus’ face in a piece of toast.
The awards themselves are handed out by former real winners of the Nobel Prize, from the nearly nine thousand nominations that are sent to the Annals of Improbable Research every year.
According to Marc Abrahams, the editor of Annals of Improbable Research, ten to twenty percent of these are self-nominations.
The team of Japanese researchers who studied the lubrication that happens when someone steps on a banana peel say that their research will be used to help design a joint prosthetic.