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Crappy knives and vibrating worms
Do knives made of faecesKot, Fäkalienfaeces work well? In September, a US team of scientists won an Ig (ignoble)unedel, schändlichIg Nobel Prize for finding out the answer. (They don’t.)
The award is a spoof (ifml.)Parodiespoof on the prestigiousrenommiertprestigious Nobel Prize. Organized by science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Science, it celebrates “achievementLeistung, Errungenschaftachievements that first make people laugh then make them think”.
Other winning studies from this year’s online ceremony identified narcissists by examining their eyebrows, showed how high-frequency vibrations to affect sth.sich auf etw. auswirkenaffect the shape of an earthwormRegenwurmearthworm and demonstrated that helium changes the noise alligators make.
The winners received a fake $10 trillionBillion(en)trillion Zimbabwean bill and a six-page PDF to print and to assemble sth.etw. zusammensetzenassemble into a cubeWürfelcube-shaped trophyTrophäetrophy. And, of course, they also got to bragprahlenbragging rights.