Презентация на тему The Ig Nobel Prize

parody and are given annually to scientists.
The name is

a play on the words ignoble (‘characterized by baseness, lowness or meanness’) and the Nobel Prize.
The Ig Nobel Prizes are organized by a group called Improbable Research.
Their aim is to inform people of scientific investigation which ‘makes people laugh, but then makes them think’.

in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals

of Improbable Research.  Awards were presented at that time for discoveries "that cannot, or should not be reproduced“.

is funny, unusual and unlike inventing smaller and better

laptops, satnavs and digital cameras.
If your scientific project has been published in a serious journal.
Find more info www.improbable.com

to Sanders Theater, we suggest you wear colorful clothing.

This is the night unearth your old wedding dress, uniform, suit of armor, labcoast.
What to bring:
Paper, Paper, paper.
Paper to make into paper airplanes.

by Brian Whitcombe and Dan Meyer. They wrote an

article which was published in the British Medical Journal. The article was an analysis of the problems suffered by professional swordswallowers. They discovered that swallowing swords doesn’t usually cause anything more serious than sore throat.

way of extracting vanillin from cow exсrement. Vanillin is

the basics of vanilla flavouring and fragrance. It is used in the food industry and in cosmetics. A famous ice cream shop created a new ice cream in honour of Yamamoto’s discovery and presented it at her prize ceremony. The ice cream contained no cow excrement.

the peace prize for making it illegal to applaud

in public. And the prize was given to the Belarus State Police for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.

the way in which languages are acquired by the

brain. They discovered that rats cannot tell the difference between somebody speaking Dutch backwards and somebody speaking Japanese backwards. 64 rats were taught to press the button when they heard normal Dutch or Japanese. But when they heard the languages backwards they had no idea what was happening.

food prize for an experiment with soup. He invented

a never-ending bowl. When people ate tomato soup from the bowl, the bowl was automatically filled again from a tube connected to the bottom of the bowl. He discovered that people ate 73% more than usual when they used the bowl. But they didn’t feel full. The conclusion was that we decide how much to eat with our eyes, not with the way our stomach feel.

are organized by UNO..
2. The first Ig Mobel prize

was created in 2001.
3. Marc Abrahams founded the Annals of Improbable Research.
4. The ceremony of the Ig Noble Prize takes part in Hyde Park.
5. You must wear official clothing.
6. The word ignoble means ‘popular, famous’.

your work must be published in a comic magazine.
8.

The motto of the Ig Noble Prize is to announce scientific investigation which ‘makes people laugh, but then makes them think’.
9. The Ig Noble prize is given twice a year.
10. The Ig Noble Prize is presented in Sanders Theater at Harvard University.