Ig Nobel winners 2016
September 23rd, 2016 | Published in Uncategorized
It’s that time of year again: the 2016 Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded.
Some favorites:
CHEMISTRY PRIZE [GERMANY] — Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.
MEDICINE PRIZE [GERMANY] — Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Münte, Silke Anders, and Andreas Sprenger, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).
Apparently it was a good year for science in Germany.