Hamsters on Viagra take center stage at spoof Nobel awards
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CAMBRIDGE, United States (AFP) -CAMBRIDGE, United States (AFP) - Scientists who discovered that Viagra helps hamsters overcome jet lag and a Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung have won top honors at the 17th annual spoof Nobel Awards.
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The so-called Ig Nobel awards, a tongue-in-cheek homage to their Scandinavian counterparts, were announced during a raucous ceremony late Thursday at Harvard University in Massachusetts that shone a bright light on obscure and often bizarre research and inventions.
The Igs, as they are known, are chosen by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine to highlight scientific achievements that, in the words of editor Marc Abrahams, “first make people laugh and then make them think.”
Among the winners were a British-US duo for a penetrating report on the effects of sword swallowing and a Spain-based team who answered the question of whether rats can discriminate between Japanese and Dutch spoken backwards.
“It was a surprise, it was the last thing we expected,” said Nuria Sebastian-Galles, one of the Barcelona team of scientists, of the findings. The awards, she said, “bring out the freak inside most scientists.”
Seven of the 10 winners this year paid their own way to accept the awards, which were handed out by six real Nobel Prize laureates.
Although pelted by paper airplanes, as per tradition, each winner expressed delight at receiving the small trophies affixed with a chicken and an egg.
Asked why chickens were chosen as this year&39;t take it as an insult at all,” said Brian Witcome, a British radiologist who won the medicine prize for his sword-swallowing research.
“Humor adds to research,” he said. His co-author, US scientist Dan Meyer even gulped down a short sword before thanking the whooping crowd with the hilt between his teeth.
Past winners who showed up included the creator of the pink plastic flamingo, the inventor of a hiding alarm clock and a researcher who reported the first known case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
“To the best of my knowledge, this behavior has not been observed in chickens,” Dutchman Kees Moeliker deadpanned.
Research highlighted by this year&39;t stop eating when presented with an apparently endless bowl of soup.
Some winners tried to explain their research but if they talked for more than 60 seconds they were interrupted by an eight-year-old girl who repeatedly intoned, “Please stop, I&39;s activities intervened.
Japanese researcher Mayu Yamamoto, who received the chemistry Ig for her work extracting vanilla flavor from cow dung, got an additional honor: a local ice cream shop created a new flavor, the “Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist,” in her honor.
Yamamoto said she first learned of her award by email and thought it was a joke but decided to go to the ceremony because “I want everyone to know about my research.”
As if further levity were needed, the ceremony was punctuated with goofy “Moments of Science” and a contest to win a date with a Nobel laureate billed with the slogan: “He&39;s sassy and he's smarter than you.”
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