SCIENCE - La cuvée 2018 des prix "anti-Nobel" a récompensé ce jeudi 13 septembre des recherches étranges, qui font "rire puis réfléchir", lors d'une cérémonie à Harvard. Biologie, économie, médecine, littérature, paix... Les 10 catégories de ces Ig Nobel (jeu de mot avec "ignoble"), surnommés les "anti-Nobel", se veulent le pendant des vraies.
[Image] Laurier researcher wins Ig Nobel Prize for research on employee retaliation using voodoo dolls | Wilfrid Laurier University
https://wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2018/sept/ig-nobel-prize-voodoo-doll.html
Wilfrid Laurier University Assistant Professor Lindie Liang and her fellow researchers have been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for their research, which used voodoo dolls to explore how and why employees retaliate against abusive supervisors.
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SUR LE MÊME SUJET :
BIOLOGY PRIZE
[SWEDEN, COLOMBIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND] —
Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that wine experts can reliably identify, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine.
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. 20637, 2017.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Peter Witzgall
https://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/
'Ig Nobel' in EntomoScience
https://www.scoop.it/topic/membracides/?&tag=Ig+Nobel
(7 scoops)