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Top 10 Ig Nobel Prize Winners


that’s why I always wear convertible bra
mask and when I am here next year I hope
every woman in this auditorium will also
be wearing one these individuals know
how to think outside the box way outside
the box
hydrogen is is a little tricky because
it’s a gas so this this is a little
aspirin bottle which at one time was
filled with actual hydrogen welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 egg Nobel
Prize winners for this list we’re
looking at the most memorable winners of
the IgG Nobel Prize a parody of the
Nobel Prize the IgG Nobel Prize pokes
fun at strange ideas and highlights ones
which might lead to a breakthrough
discovery in scientific research the IgG
Nobel Prize ceremony takes place every
year at Harvard University and strives
to reward those who quote make people
laugh and then make them think number 10
the Italian National Institute of
statistics you know what really turned
me seeing the way Italians are treated
thanks to new rules set out by the
European Union Italy was able to bring
GDP numbers up by including industries
they previously ignored because such
transactions are illegal namely
prostitution drug sales and smuggling
after adding up the estimated revenues
from these black market activities the
Italian National Institute of Statistics
found that their economy went from
negative 0.1% growth all the way to zero
which was technically enough to lift
Italy out of recession
anyone who says crime doesn’t pay
clearly isn’t an economist but screwing
around oh we are here to do a job not
channel scrooge mcduck number 9 out of
tortas walk us
this Lithuanian mayor has little
patience for luxury cars parked
illegally in his towns bike lanes so he
staged a video to show his discussed in
the video Marisa Waqas rolls down the
street on a tank all right an armed
vehicle but still and crushes a Mercedes
parked in the wrong lane when the
supposed Mercedes owner pops out to look
at the damage
the mayor reprimands him for his
careless parking a piece of advice for
politicians if you ride around on a tank
it doesn’t automatically make you look
cool just ask Michael Dukakis and now he
wants to be our commander-in-chief
America can’t afford that risk number
eight Andre gaim and Michael berry there
is no problem with putting a man to
force a man by this magnetic levitation
to fly in there at the turn of the
century
Andre gaim and his partner Michael berry
came up with an awesome way of
experimenting with frogs that didn’t
involve dissecting them algebras honking
sky
they tested the effects of magnetism on
the amphibians and were able to raise
one several feet off the ground diamond
is colleague claimed they could apply
the same magnetic field to lift up a
human being if you can levitate a frog
why can’t you put your magnet in a trunk
of my car so I can avoid traffic jams
perhaps dimes work isn’t as silly as it
seems however as he earned an actual
Nobel Prize in 2010 for his graphene
research making him the only person to
win both Awards as an individual
graphene has become one of the hottest
subjects in science number 7 John
Martinez indisputably the rarest yes
most of Gourmet from gross to gourmet
yes the most it’s crazy expensive coffee
this Atlanta businessman popularized
Kopi Luwak a rare coffee with a
disgusting source its beans are
collected from the fecal droppings of
the palm civet a cat-like creature
native to Southeast Asia and the coffee
is marketed as a delicacy all around the
world Oh Baloo ACK
the rarest beverage in the world selling
for as much as $600 a pound the reason
behind Kopi Luwak subpoena it’s low acid
content and lack of bitter taste
courtesy of the palm civets digestive
process breaking down proteins in the
beans really well structured kind of
nice acidic integration any head some
feces I’m getting no pooping this number
6 Xiao foo Lee and Michelle Wong
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in 1990s Johannesburg carjackings were
becoming increasingly rampant but Xiao
foo he found a way to fight back he
invented a device you could put under
your car that projected flames at an
approaching carjacker the device called
the blaster emitted liquid gas and
caused an electric spark which produced
fire from both sides of a vehicle while
feu he claimed the blaster also called
the BMW flamethrower wasn’t powerful
enough to kill an assailant he believed
it could permanently blind someone and
that’s good enough
right my eyes the garbage still nothing
number five Callum Ormond Colin rastenn
and Gregory Weis so you can see the egg
white is a little bit of dissolved in
there and the solution looks cloudy
if you’ve ever boiled an egg and wanted
to unveil it you’re in luck because
scientists from Flinders University and
the University of California Irvine have
worked together to discover a way to do
just that we’ve come up with a way of
using mechanical energy to take proteins
and return them to their native natural
state when an egg is boiled protein
strands in the egg fold into a new
pattern to fold the proteins back into
their original pattern researchers
dissolved the egg in a chemical solution
liquefying it then spun the mixture in a
vortex fluidic device this discovery may
have dramatic effects for drug companies
as this new process of refolding
proteins could make pharmaceutical
production more efficient and could help
out with chemotherapy drugs for cancer
treatment or it could just unvoyage
win-win so now once our egg is done we
go ahead and suck it up with this
pipette and then fan boil it back on the
hot number four Troy Hurtubise check it
out ladies at Dukes inmates be
completely invulnerable to berry egg Oh
after a harrowing encounter with a bear
in the woods this Canadian outdoorsman
decided he needed a way to defend
himself from ursine predators if a
grizzly is feeding on that food up there
that he’s killed or whatever you were
every year so I’m gonna round that bend
and he’s gonna take one look he’s gonna
be gone so fast make head spin inspired
by the movie Robocop Troy came up with
the idea to build an indestructible suit
over a period of seven years he created
several versions made of various
materials including titanium chainmail
and duct tape here comes
while herda bees never got to test out
his armor against a wild bear in 2002 he
did get a trial run with a trained
Kodiak bear
but the mammal was too confounded by his
outlandish appearance to even come close
to him because of what happened with the
old man you’ll meet him again and if the
encounter happens like it did before
you’ll die
number three the Vatican according to a
New York Times article published in 2004
for decades the Catholic Church had been
engaged in a time-honored business
practice of outsourcing labor to India
priests in the United States Canada and
Europe have been shipping special
prayers to Kerala a state located in
southern India although weird it worked
out well for Indian priests who were
only making $45 a month as local prayers
typically paid out 90 cents but fancy
American prayers could net them a smooth
five bucks no idea why prayers cost
money but bless them all the same
is there anything to be said for seeing
another mass just a small oh god I love
saying mass number 2 Willie brought by
Mark Schultz and EDA Sabbath to see
yourself on that video clip or more or
less in those in those pictures edited
one after the other is just as weird as
looking at a 3d echo from a grandchild a
group of Dutch researchers was able to
use MRI scanning to find out what
happens when two people have sex
conducting 13 separate experiments
involving eight couples and three single
women they found that in the missionary
position the penis curves into the shape
of a boomerang
the researchers also discovered that
during female arousal the uterus rises a
couple of centimeters at first glance
this may seem like a giant waste of time
but rest assured knowing that this
research was one of the biggest
breakthroughs ever in the field of penis
shape when inside a lady ology my father
who was born in 1901 always said look
there’s not a window and you tell me you
can’t look inside and now all of a
sudden we can before we unveil our
number one pick here are some honorable
mentions
that’s all police building when he goes
off in the morning you can just turn him
off and he’ll believe that you’re going
to get out of bed the second press the
snooze button he’ll start hopping off of
your bed stand distances up to three
feet tall with the simplest forms of
ballots when you give them a cheat sheet
about who to vote for 25% of people have
an error on their ballot I’m one of the
last few sword swallowers left in the
world today and I was honored to receive
the ik nobel prize in medicine at
harvard university in 2007 with dr.
Brian Whitcomb for a little paper we
wrote called sword swallowing and its
side effects know there are philosophers
who there was an anthology of
philosophers on procrastination that
haven’t gotten ran to reason number one
Karl Cruz Ulm its key what did that you
know where that stuff comes from
when dr. Cruz linetsky was asked by a
fan of his radio show where bellybutton
fluff comes from he decided to
personally research the topic himself so
he organized an online survey that had
more than 4,700 participants in addition
he collected samples of bellybutton lint
and shaved hair from some of the more
willing volunteers among his findings
were that you’re more likely to have
belly button lint if you’re male
possibly because men have more body hair
than women also the older you get the
more lint you accumulate and the darker
your skin color the darker the lint so
now you know so in conclusion the belly
button is evil do you agree with our
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