The 2016 Ig Nobels: Pale Horses, Dead Flies and Quantified Bullroar

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Each year, a magazine called The Annals of Improbable Research awards the Ig Nobel prizes to honor the weirdest and funniest scientific projects ever undertaken by humans. In this pair of Stuff to Blow Your Mind episodes, Robert, Joe and Christian discuss

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1:28.2	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howsetworks.com.
1:50.8	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam, I'm Christian Sager,
2:25.1	I'm a Noble Awards, they are given out by an improbable research group and the idea is
2:31.6	that they celebrate research that makes people both laugh and then think.
2:35.9	And I guess I'm going to take the first prize that we discussed today, I want to talk
2:40.0	about their Peace Prize for 2016, which went to a Peace of Research on BS and before
2:47.6	I get into it, I'm so sad that I was not able to think of a non-profane and yet non-yufamistic
2:54.4	word to use for this subject. Bull Roar?
2:56.8	About that. Bull Roar? Yeah, I think that one's going to spin to the
2:59.6	roar. Okay, well, the subject is bull roar, that is not the term they use, but bull roar
3:05.6	as a psycholinguistic phenomenon to take seriously and understand. And so the Peace Prize
3:10.8	went to Gordon Penny Cook, James Allen Chane, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Coler, and Jonathan
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