{"id":13731,"date":"2012-09-21T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T09:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=13731"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:02:39","slug":"vendemmia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/21\/vendemmia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendemmia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questa notte nell’Aula magna di Harvard sono stati assegnati<\/a> i seguenti premi Ig Nobel<\/p>\n

PSYCHOLOGY <\/strong><\/p>\n

Anita Eerland<\/strong> and Rolf Zwaan<\/strong> [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe<\/strong> [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller”
\nREFERENCE: “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller:\u00a0 Posture-Modulated Estimation,” Anita Eerland, Tulio M. Guadalupe and Rolf A. Zwaan, Psychological Science<\/em>, vol. 22 no. 12, December 2011, pp. 1511-14. (Anita e Rolf adesso si sposano, ndr<\/em>)<\/p>\n

PEACE <\/strong><\/p>\n

The SKN Company<\/strong> [RUSSIA], for converting old Russian ammunition into new diamonds.
\nREFERENCE<\/a><\/p>\n

ACOUSTICS <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kazutaka Kurihara<\/strong> and Koji Tsukada<\/strong> [JAPAN] for creating the SpeechJammer \u2014 a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.
\nREFERENCE: “SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback”, Kazutaka Kurihara, Koji Tsukada<\/a>,\u00a0February 28, 2012.<\/p>\n

NEUROSCIENCE <\/strong><\/p>\n

Craig Bennett<\/strong>, Abigail Baird<\/strong>, Michael Miller<\/strong>, and George Wolford<\/strong> [USA], for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere \u2014 even in a dead salmon.
\nREFERENCES: “Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: An argument for multiple comparisons correction,” Craig M. Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, and George L. Wolford<\/a>, 2009;\u00a0“Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Multiple Comparisons Correction,” Craig M. Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, and George L. Wolford, Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-5.<\/p>\n

CHEMISTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Johan Pettersson<\/strong> [SWEDEN and RWANDA]. for solving the puzzle of why, in certain houses in the town of Andersl\u00f6v, Sweden, people’s hair turned green.
\nBACKGROUND<\/a> INFO<\/a> (ora\u00a0Johan lavora \u00a0per l’UNHCR \u00a0in Ruanda).<\/p>\n

LITERATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Government General Accountability Office<\/strong>, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.
\nREFERENCE: “Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies,” US Government General Accountability Office report GAO-12-480R<\/a>, May 10, 2012.<\/p>\n

PHYSICS <\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Keller<\/strong> [USA], and Raymond Goldstein<\/strong> [USA and UK], Patrick Warren<\/strong>, and Robin Ball<\/strong> [UK], for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail.
\nREFERENCES: “Shape of a Ponytail and the Statistical Physics of Hair Fiber Bundles.” Raymond E. Goldstein, Patrick B. Warren, and Robin C. Ball, Physical Review Letters<\/em>, vol. 198, no. 7, 2012;\u00a0“Ponytail Motion,” Joseph B. Keller, SIAM<\/em> [Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics] Journal of Applied Mathematics<\/em>, vol. 70, no. 7, 2010, pp. 2667\u201372.<\/p>\n

FLUID DYNAMICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rouslan Krechetnikov<\/strong> [USA, RUSSIA, CANADA] and Hans Mayer<\/strong> [USA] for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a cup of coffee.
\nREFERENCE: “Walking With Coffee: Why Does It Spill?” Hans C. Mayer and Rouslan Krechetnikov, Physical Review E<\/em>, vol. 85, 2012.<\/p>\n

ANATOMY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frans de Waal<\/strong> [The Netherlands and USA] and Jennifer Pokorny<\/strong> [USA] for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually from seeing photographs of their rear ends.
\nREFERENCE: “Faces and Behinds: Chimpanzee Sex Perception” Frans B.M. de Waal and Jennifer J. Pokorny, Advanced Science Letters<\/em>, vol. 1, 99\u2013103, 2008. \u00a0(Complimenti, Frans, e \u00a0anche a Jennifer, ndr<\/em>)<\/p>\n

MEDICINE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emmanuel Ben-Soussan<\/strong> and Michel Antonietti<\/strong> [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.
\nREFERENCES: “Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery,” Spiros D Ladas, George Karamanolis, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, World Journal of Gastroenterology<\/em>, vol. 13, no. 40, October 2007, pp. 5295\u20138;\u00a0\u00a0“Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe,” E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrott\u00e9, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology<\/em>, vol. 16, no. 12, December 2004, pp 1315-8.
\nERRATA CORRIGE<\/span>
\nWe are now, in 2012, correcting an error we made in the year 1999, when we failed to include one winner’s name. We now correct that, awarding a share of the 1999 physics prize to Joseph Keller<\/strong>. Professor Keller\u00a0 is also a co-winner of the 2012 Ig Nobel physics prize, making him a two-time Ig Nobel winner.
\nThe corrected citation is:
\n1999 PHYSICS PRIZE: Len Fisher [UK and Australia] for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck [UK and Belgium] and Joseph Keller [USA], for calculating how to make a teapot spout that does not drip.
\nREFERENCES: “Physics Takes the Biscuit”, Len Fisher, Nature, vol. 397, no. 6719, February 11, 1999, p. 469;\u00a0\u00a0“Pouring Flows,” Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck and Joseph B. Keller, Physics of Fluids vol. 29, no. 12, 1986, pp. 3958-61.<\/p>\n

Versione italiana in arrivo su Oggi Scienza.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Questa notte nell’Aula magna di Harvard sono stati assegnati i seguenti premi Ig Nobel PSYCHOLOGY Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller” REFERENCE: “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller:\u00a0 Posture-Modulated… Continua a leggere Vendemmia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3427,4165],"class_list":["post-13731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cronaca","tag-ig-nobel","tag-marc-abrahams","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41063,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13731\/revisions\/41063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}