The 2021 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony webcast happens two weeks from today: on Thursday, September 9.
The ceremony live stream will be in the traditional English language. There will also be a special Japanese-language stream. And we expect (but it’s not certain yet) there will also be a special Spanish-language stream.
Methylene blue, methyl orange, and a jug of coffee commune almost poetically, with the third of these acting attractively in opposition to the first two, in this newly published study:
“Carbon Adsorbents from Spent Coffee for Removal of Methylene Blue and Methyl Orange from Water,” Inga Block, Christina Günter, Alysson Duarte Rodrigues, Silvia Paasc, Peter Hesemann, and Andreas Taubert, Materials, vol 14, no. 14, July 16, 2021. The authors are at Universität Potsdam, University of Montpellier-CNRS-ENSCM, and TU Dresden.
Hopes and prayers lie at the heart of a saint-centric study about mitigating the effects of the pandemic. The study is:
“Which Saint to Pray for Fighting Against a Covid infection? A short survey,” A. Perciaccante, A. Corallic, and P. Charlier, Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, vol. 18, September 2021, 100674. (Thanks to Andrea Rapisarda for bringing this to our attention.)
The authors, at Paris-Saclay University (UVSQ), France and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Italy, explain:
In the absence of a treatment still considered universally effective, and of a vaccine validated by the health authorities, we wanted to know which Catholic saint the European Christian community turned to in the event of infection with Covid-19 to request a miraculous healing.
Methodology— An online survey was carried out on a sample of 1158 adults using social media tools.
Results—All results are presented in this research, with a few saints in the majority, and some dictated by the symptomatology of the Covid-19 infection or the personalities of certain « doctor guru »….
All results are summarized in Table 1.
In Podcast Episode #1079, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue.
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Jean Berko Gleason encounters:
“Cats Prefer Species-Appropriate Music,” Charles T. Snowdon, David Teie, and Megan Savage, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, vol. 166, 2015, pp. 106-111.
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The theme of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, evinced in the opera and other bits, is ENGINEERING. The ceremony will include the premiere of a new mini-opera called “A Bridge Between People”. The crude drawing you see here summarizes the opera’s plot.
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