The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
Held less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced, Thursday's 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair webcast on theThe winners, honored in 10 categories, also included scientists who found that when people on a blind date are attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize, and researchers who looked at why legal documents can be so utterly baffling, even to lawyers themselves.
Eric Martinez, a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. Martinez, who also has a law degree from Harvard University, shared the literature Ig Nobel with Francis Mollica and Edward Gibson for analyzing what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand. The 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony on Thursday, Sept.
She had no problems finding her apparent perfect match on dating apps, yet she often found there was no spark when they met face-to-face. Scorpions can detach a body part to escape a predator—a process called autotomy. But when they lose their tails, they also lose the last portion of the digestive tract, which leads to constipation—and, eventually, death, they wrote in the journal"Integrated Zoology."
"I believe this is a fascinating and still very unexplored area that deserves all the attention it can get," he said."This topic is mystical, life threatening and more relevant than ever."Anyone who has ever read a terms of service agreement knows that legal documents can be downright incomprehensible.
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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig NobelsWinners also included scientists who found that when people on a blind date are attracted to each other their heart rates synchronize, and researchers who studied the baffling legal documents.
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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig NobelsThe sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels
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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig NobelsThe sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels.
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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig NobelsThe sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels
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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig NobelsWinners also included scientists who found that when people on a blind date are attracted to each other their heart rates synchronize, and researchers who studied the baffling legal documents.
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