Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded

[TheVat]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/science/ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-2024-intl-scli/index.html

CNN — 

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have thought existed – now have answers.

We now know that many mammals can breathe through their anuses, that there isn’t an equal probability that a coin will land on head or tails, that some real plants somehow imitate the shapes of neighboring fake plastic plants, that fake medicine which causes painful side-effects can be more effective than fake medicine without side-effects, and that many of the people famous for reaching lofty old ages lived in places that had bad record-keeping...

[CharonY]

To be fair, a handful of those are actually quite fascinating. The placebo effect study adds an interesting element to the question how it works in the first place (while not fundamentally new, it does at more evidence how expectations mitigate perception). The dead trout study sounds like regular physics to me. Enteral ventilation is.... curious, but I wonder whether it might actually have an application (beyond situations when ventilators are missing).

[TheVat]

Yes, the article does make clear that these researches have value.

 

The awards – which have no affiliation to the Nobel Prizes – aim to “celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative – and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology” by making “people laugh, then think.”  

As for enteral ventilation, I think politicians could find this useful: if you talk through your ass, it would help to be able breathe through your ass.

 

 

[geordief]

5 minutes ago, TheVat said:

As for enteral ventilation, I think politicians could find this useful: if you talk through your ass, it would help to be able breathe through your ass.

I disagree.I had an acquaintance back in the day who  was a "petomane"

 

as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane  (but not him of course)

 

In  circa  1970 he went out one night  and claimed upon his return that he (he was called "Dan l'Americain") to his girlfriend that he had been beaten up by the police (a mark of honour then)

 

She got him to admit the injuries were self inflicted..

 

He also claimed to be a deserter from the Vietnam War- but never to being able to breathe through his colon. 

[exchemist]

36 minutes ago, TheVat said:

Yes, the article does make clear that these researches have value.

 

The awards – which have no affiliation to the Nobel Prizes – aim to “celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative – and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology” by making “people laugh, then think.”  

As for enteral ventilation, I think politicians could find this useful: if you talk through your ass, it would help to be able breathe through your ass.

 

 

That's exactly the thought that sprang to my mind. Well, one of two actually.

The other was that, when I was a kid, my brothers and I developed the idea that Mr Waverley, the boss in The Man from UNCLE, had his lungs in his buttocks and breathed by shifting from one buttock to the other while seated. Don't ask me why. One of us just thought it would be an amusing thing to keep in mind while watching the show. So I did allow myself a chuckle at the idea someone might breathe through his arse.  

Edited September 14 by exchemist

[sethoflagos]

32 minutes ago, exchemist said:

The other was that, when I was a kid, my brothers and I developed the idea that Mr Waverley, the boss in The Man from UNCLE, had his lungs in his buttocks and breathed by shifting from one buttock to the other while seated.

... an ability Leo G. Carroll perfected in the role of Trump in the 1933 Broadway production of 'The Green Bay Tree'?

[TheVat]

4 hours ago, exchemist said:

The other was that, when I was a kid, my brothers and I developed the idea that Mr Waverley, the boss in The Man from UNCLE, had his lungs in his buttocks and breathed by shifting from one buttock to the other while seated. Don't ask me why.

That was my first reaction, to ask you why.  So, being stymied in that regard, I will just congratulate you and your brothers on your apparent prescience.  I remember liking the series, though some of the humor (from such scriptwriting eminences as Robert Towne and Harlan Ellison) went over my young head.  Later had a GF who was mildly obsessed with Ilya Kuryakin, whose buttock shiftings seemed to also affect respiration albeit among his female admirers.

4 hours ago, sethoflagos said:

an ability Leo G. Carroll perfected in the role of Trump in the 1933 Broadway production of 'The Green Bay Tree'?

Don't entirely follow this, but some instinct tells me to request no further explanation.