The Improbable Research Institute awards each year outstanding mentions to the most curious investigations of the year.
Under the motto of “first they make us laugh, then they make us think”, the craziest studies but with a rigorous scientific level, make a niche on the covers of all the media.
See 2016 IG Nobel Prizes
In 2014, for example, they won studies on the ‘coefficient of friction of the banana peel’ when being stepped on, an investigation that measured the relative pain that a person suffers when looking at both horrible and beautiful paintings or the Ig Nobel Prize in Neuroscience that It was about an interesting investigation that tried to “understand what happens in the brain of people who see the face of Jesus on a piece of toast.”
In 2015 , to name a few, prizes were awarded for discovering what the way we think dinosaurs walked would be thanks to an experiment with chickens, inventing a chemical recipe that allows an already cooked egg to be partially “unboiled” or work on the interjection huh? (huh? in English), by showing that it is a universal expression, present in all human languages, although they do not really know why.
In 2016 , we have seen a study on the sex life of rats, a man who lived like goats or a curious way to relieve itching.
What will be the next craziest studies? We will see it next year.
