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\nL’Italia \u00e8 stata onorata due volte ieri sera a Harvard \u00a0durante la 24\u00b0 <\/a>Prima cerimonia dei premi Ig Nobel alla ricerca che prima fa ridere e poi pensare. Video<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

PHYSICS PRIZE [JAPAN]
\nKiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that’s on the floor.
\nREFERENCE: “Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin<\/a>“, Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, Tribology Online<\/em> 7, no. 3, 2012, pp. 147-151.
\nNEUROSCIENCE PRIZE [CHINA, CANADA]
\nJiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, and Kang Lee, for trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast.
\nREFERENCE: “Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Face Pareidolia<\/a>” Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, Kang Lee, Cortex<\/em>, vol. 53, April 2014, Pages 60\u201377. The authors are at School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Xidian University, the Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and the University of Toronto, Canada.
\nPSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, UK, USA]
\nPeter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.
\nREFERENCE: “Creatures of the Night: Chronotypes and the Dark Triad Traits<\/a>“, Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, Personality and Individual Differences<\/em>, vol. 55, no. 5, 2013, pp. 538-541.
\nPUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE [CZECH REPUBLIC, JAPAN, USA, INDIA]
\nJaroslav Flegr, Jan Havl\u00ed?ek and Jitka Hanu\u0161ova-Lindova, and to David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried, for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.
\nREFERENCE: “Changes in personality profile of young women with latent toxoplasmosis<\/a>“, Jaroslav Flegr and Jan Havlicek, Folia Parasitologica<\/em>, vol. 46, 1999, pp. 22-28.
\nREFERENCE: “Decreased level of psychobiological factor novelty seeking and lower intelligence in men latently infected with the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii Dopamine, a missing link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis?”<\/a> Jaroslav Flegr, Marek Preiss, Ji??? Klose, Jan Havl???ek, Martina Vit\u00e1kov\u00e1, and Petr Kodym, Biological Psychology,<\/em> vol. 63, 2003, pp. 253\u2013268.
\nREFERENCE:\u00a0 “Describing the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record<\/a>“, David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried, PLoS ONE<\/em>, vol. 8, no. 8, 2013, e70585.
\nBIOLOGY PRIZE [CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY, ZAMBIA]
\nVlastimil Hart, Petra Nov\u00e1kov\u00e1, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladim\u00edr Hanzal, Milo\u0161 Je\u017eek, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ku\u0161ta, Veronika N?mcov\u00e1, Jana Ad\u00e1mkov\u00e1, Kate?ina Benediktov\u00e1, Jaroslav ?erven\u00fd and Hynek Burda, for carefully documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth’s north-south geomagnetic field lines.
\nREFERENCE: “Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field<\/a>“, Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nov\u00e1kov\u00e1, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladim\u00edr Hanzal, Milo\u0161 Je\u017eek, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ku\u0161ta, Veronika N?mcov\u00e1, Jana Ad\u00e1mkov\u00e1, Kate?ina Benediktov\u00e1, Jaroslav ?erven\u00fd and Hynek Burda, Frontiers in Zoology<\/em>, 10:80, 27 December 27, 2013.
\nART PRIZE [ITALY]<\/b>
\nMarina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, for measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot [in the hand] by a powerful laser beam.
\nREFERENCE: “Aesthetic value of paintings affects pain thresholds<\/a>“, Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea, Consciousness and Cognition<\/em>, vol. 17, no. 4, 2008, pp. 1152-1162.
\nMarina De Tommaso, prof. associata all’universit\u00e0 di Bari, \u00e8 andata a ritirare il premio e domani illustrer\u00e0 la propria ricerca durante una conferenza al MIT.
\nECONOMICS PRIZE [ITALY]<\/b>
\nISTAT \u2014 the Italian government’s National Institute of Statistics, for proudly taking the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between willing participants.
\nREFERENCE: “Cambia il sistema europeo dei conti nazionali<\/a>“, ISTAT, 2014.
\nREFERENCE: “European System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA 2010)<\/a>“, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2013.
\nMEDICINE PRIZE [USA, INDIA]
\nIan Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, for treating “uncontrollable” nosebleeds, using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork.
\nREFERENCE: “Nasal Packing With Strips of Cured Pork as Treatment for Uncontrollable Epistaxis in a Patient with Glanzmann Thrombasthenia<\/a>,” Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin, Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology<\/em>, vol. 120, no. 11, November 2011, pp. 732-36.
\nARCTIC SCIENCE PRIZE [NORWAY, GERMANY]<\/b>
\nEigil Reimers and Sindre Eftest\u00f8l, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears.
\nREFERENCE: “Response Behaviors of Svalbard Reindeer towards Humans and Humans Disguised as Polar Bears on Edge\u00f8ya<\/a>,” Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftest\u00f8l, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research<\/em>, vol. 44, no. 4, 2012, pp. 483-9.
\nNUTRITION PRIZE [SPAIN]
\nRaquel Rubio, Anna Jofr\u00e9, Bel\u00e9n Mart\u00edn, Teresa Aymerich, and Margarita Garriga, for their study titled “Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages.”
\nREFERENCE: “Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages<\/a>,” Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofr\u00e9, Bel\u00e9n Mart\u00edn, Teresa Aymerich, Margarita Garriga, Food Microbiology<\/em>, vol. 38, 2014, pp. 303-311.
\nFoto: Charles Krupa\/AP<\/a>, Marc Abrahams con l’onorificenza 2014 (costo massimo 5,99 dollari)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’Italia \u00e8 stata onorata due volte ieri sera a Harvard \u00a0durante la 24\u00b0 Prima cerimonia dei premi Ig Nobel alla ricerca che prima fa ridere e poi pensare. Video. PHYSICS PRIZE [JAPAN] Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and… Continua a leggere Vendemmia 2014<\/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],"class_list":["post-25911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cronaca","tag-ig-nobel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911","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=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42604,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions\/42604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}