you Know, that French postman and the bus driver left testicle is the right warmer? Many do not know, but dr. Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa know. They are namely made of the matter of scientific research that brought them to Friday night humor-the Nobel prize so Harvard university granted by the annual Ig Nobel prize.

the Award is called the word contortion of the English language low mean on the word ignoble. Awards are divided into at Harvard for nearly three decades.

the prize pitcher in addition the winners will also receive money: as much as ten trillion Zimbabwe dollars. Very large shopping prize still can not do, because of the rampant galloping inflation, the amount is almost worthless.

Mieusset and Bengoudifa not been the only reward you. Inter alia, an iranian Iman Farahbakhsh took the trophy home patented gizmo inhibitor, which change a diaper. Patricia Yang and David Hu awarded the research, with each find out why wombat poop is cube shaped.

Japanese Shigeru Watanabe another already in the mid-1990s research on our consciousness, that five year old child produces about half a liter of drool every day. Humor-the Nobel Watanabe got inexplicably until now.

the Real nobel prize by the beneficiaries is also a way of humour-the Nobel prize laureates keep their thank you speech. Its dimensions is limited to minutes. If the time is exceeded, the eight year old girl starts going: “please stop, I’m bored”.

closing words at the ceremony said the journalist Marc Abrahams congratulations to the winners humor-Nobel spirit suitably.

If you didn’t win a Nobel prize tonight, and especially if you win, better luck next time.

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