REFERENCE: “Contraceptive Efficacy of Polyester-Induced Azoospermia in Normal Men,” Ahmed Shafik, Contraception, vol. 1038-41. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: The winners delivered their acceptance speech via video recording. 2, 1996, pp. REFERENCE: “A Survey of Frog Odorous Secretions, Their Possible Functions and Phylogenetic Significance,” Benjamin P.C. Experimental study, Contraceptive Efficacy of Polyester-Induced Azoospermia in Normal Men, The Brand Personality of Rocks: A Critical Evaluation of a Brand Personality Scale, An Unexpected Advantage of Whiteness in Horses: The Most Horsefly-Proof Horse Has a Depolarizing White Coat, Ecological Traps for Dragonflies in a Cemetery: The Attraction of Sympetrum species (Odonata: Libellulidae) by Horizontally Polarizing Black Grave-Stones, EPA, California Notify Volkswagen of Clean Air Act Violations, Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. Müssen Kandidaten aus gesundheitlichen Gründen die Show verlassen, rücken andere, ggf. ACOUSTICS PRIZE: Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada [JAPAN] for creating the SpeechJammer — a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay. Papoiu, L. Banari, F. McGlone, S.G. Kwatra, Y.-H. Chan and G. Yosipovitch, British Journal of Dermatology, vol. 1543-1546. BIOLOGY: Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute; for painstakingly smelling and cataloging the peculiar odors produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed. The 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 12, 2019, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. 571-81. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, ANATOMY PRIZE [UK] — James Heathcote, for his medical research study “Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?”. PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, NORWAY, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh. Robinson, et al., vol. The rich history of the GRAMMYs, Music's Biggest Night, is at your fingertips. REFERENCE: “Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass”. PSYCHOLOGY: Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it’s all too easy to overlook anything else — even a woman in a gorilla suit. [14], Beste gestalterische Leistung Unterhaltung (Regie, Buch, Schnitt). Bob Harper and Dolvett Quince returned as trainers, while Jillian Michaels decided to leave the show. Zunächst stellt die Moderatorin einen Gastjuror vor, der die Ergebnisse des ersten Kochdurchgangs bewertet. The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 12th, 2013 at the 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Masanori Niimi. Our scores. Gwynne, and D.C.F. REFERENCE: “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is Effective in Misophonia: An Open Trial,” Arjan E., Schröder, Nienke C. Vulink, Arnoud J. van Loon, and Damiaan A. Denys, Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 101-9.]. 1, no. November 2013 in Deutschland ausgestrahlt. His voice adapts exquisitely to the different qualities of each aria, and transmits all those sentiments and emotions Handel wished to describe with his music. The ceremony was webcast live. REFERENCE: “Estimation of the Total Saliva Volume Produced Per Day in Five-Year-Old Children,” Shigeru Watanabe, M. Ohnishi, K. Imai, E. Kawano, and S. Igarashi, Archives of Oral Biology, vol. 9, no. The Taste (Engl. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss [USA], for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg. 7, 2012, e37300. 14, no. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. 158, August, 1993, pp. 18, no. That’s why we give you the references. REFERENCE: “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?” Jaroslav Flegr, Marek Preiss, Jiřı́ Klose, Jan Havlı́ček, Martina Vitáková, and Petr Kodym, Biological Psychology, vol. The 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, September 30th, 2004 at the 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. [a video accompanies the paper.]. REFERENCE: “Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam,” by Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, American Journal of Surgery, 1983, no. Die/Der Gewinner/in wird mittels Zufallsprinzips ausgelost und aufgrund des Datenschutzes per Direktnachricht am 07.05.2021 benachrichtigt! REFERENCE: “The Scent of the Fly,” Paul G. Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika A. Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall, bioRxiv, no. 1806-10. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca’s sister Mariela. 2-3, November 2003, pp. CHEMISTRY: Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi, and Giovanni B. Cassano of the University of Pisa, and Hagop S. Akiskal of the University of California (San Diego), for their discovery that, biochemically, romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. Seit 2013 ist er Juror und Coach vieler TV Köche in der Fernsehserie „ The Taste “. 545– 547. MEDICINE: James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and the late Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. for their unshakable discovery, as testified to the U.S. Congress, that nicotine is not addictive. CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Javier Morales, Miguel Apátiga, and Victor M. Castaño of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, for creating diamonds from liquid — specifically from tequila. 11, October 2004, pp. The remaining competitors had to taste the dish then grab the correct ingredients from the pantry and recreate it in 75 minutes. Seit Staffel 2 kann jeder Kandidat im Entscheidungskochen weiterkommen, wenn er mindestens einen goldenen Stern erhält. The Taste (Engl. 303-311. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners were unable to attend the ceremony; they delivered their acceptance speech via video. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Gauri Nanda. 899–906. REFERENCE: “The Fastest Man on Earth,” Nick T. Spark, Annals of Improbable Research, vol. REFERENCE: “Hiccups and Digital Rectal Massage,”  M. Odeh and A. Oliven, Archives of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 185.]. 44707, April 7, 2017. Rule, Journal of Personality, vol. 990-1.]. [See the movie “The Invention of Dr. Nakamats“, 2009], WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats, FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report “Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation.”. Auch hier darf seit der 7. 8, 2001, pp. Ratings. Theoretisch haben somit alle Teilnehmer des Entscheidungskochens die Möglichkeit auch in der nächsten Folge wieder anzutreten. Also published as Reviews on Advanced Materials Science, vol. REFERENCE: Surgery, September 1986, pp. 47-82. 139-56. WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Daniel Oppenheimer, MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage“; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.”. It's now the sixth year of the world's most established weblog awards, the Bloggies ™. 289-294. REFERENCE: “Cambia il Sistema europeo dei conti nazionali e regionali – Sec2010“, ISTAT, 2014. REFERENCE: Numerous news reports. 102002, October 2019. REFERENCE: and and . Viana, Studies in Conservation, vol. LITERATURE PRIZE: Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order. 6, June 2001, pp. It is based on the format of the British series Junior MasterChef.. On March 5, 2014, MasterChef Junior was renewed for a third season before production on season two began. REFERENCE: “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, vol. MEDICINE: Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes University, and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. in Seattle, Washington, for their discovery that listening to elevator Muzak stimulates immunoblobulin A (IgA) production, and thus may help prevent the common cold. 70, no. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. (at about the 12 minute mark). REFERENCE: “Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies,” US Government General Accountability Office report GAO-12-480R, May 10, 2012. REFERENCE: “Pouring Flows,” Jean-Marc Vanden‐Broeck and Joseph B. Keller, Physics of Fluids, vol. 789–97. REFERENCE: “Fetal Load and the Evolution of Lumbar Lordosis in Bipedal Hominins,” Katherine K. Whitcome, Liza J. Shapiro & Daniel E. Lieberman, Nature, vol. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India. 4, 2015: e0120900. PEACE: Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other. October 19, 2016: Guest Star: Das Spiel beginnt: Unknown: March 19, 2016: Guest Star: TV Total PokerStars.de Nacht: TV Total Pokerstars.de Nacht am 16.12.2014: December 16, 2014: Guest Star: Bauerfeind assistiert: Tim Mälzer: October 25, 2014: Guest Star: Zimmer frei!