The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2...shows/10242560

Amongst them are findings that nobody reads the instructions, and that stabbing a voodoo doll of your boss makes you feel better!

Here's the full list, from the news article linked above:

• Anthropology: Tomas Pesson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Madsen, Lund University
  "Spontaneous Cross-Species Imitation in Interaction Between Chimpanzees and Zoo Visitors"
• Biology: Paul Becher, Sebastian Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger and Peter Witzgall
  "The Scent of the Fly"
• Chemistry: Paula Romão, Adília Alarcão and the late César Viana, Regional Government of the Azores
  "Human Saliva as a Cleaning Agent for Dirty Surfaces"
• Economics: Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris and Lisa Keeping
  "Righting a Wrong: Retaliation on a Voodoo Doll Symbolizing an Abusive Supervisor Restores Justice"
• Literature: Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson, Queensland University of Technology
  "Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products"
• Medical Education: Akira Horiuchi, Showa Inan General Hospital
  "Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy"
• Medicine: Marc Mitchell and David Wartinger, Michigan State University
  "Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster"
• Nutrition: James Cole, University of Brighton
  "Assessing the Calorific Significance of Episodes of Human Cannibalism in the Paleolithic"
• Peace: Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartin, Constanza Calatayud and Beatriz Alamar, University of Valencia
  "Shouting and Cursing While Driving: Frequency, Reasons, Perceived Risk and Punishment"
• Reproductive Medicine: John Barry, Bruce Blank and Michel Boileau
  "Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring With Stamps"

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