Research on 'blue zones' and the intricacies of coin flipping also scoop awards for studies that make people ‘laugh, then think’
Research on 'blue zones' and the intricacies of coin flipping also scoop awards for studies that make people ‘laugh, then think’
A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year’s spoof Ig Nobel peace prize won the prize for physiology. The study found that when some mice or pigs are dangerously deprived of air, they can survive after receiving oxygen through their rectums. , which claimed centenarians were typically from tight knit, faith-based communities who lived on mainly plant-based diets.how people in Sardinia, which has a high number of centenarians, tended to live longer partly because of their healthy lifestyles. They live in steep villages that forces them to walk up and downhill as part of their daily routine, and they mostly eat whole foods and seasonal vegetables grown from their own gardens.
“If you want to know why people in Ikaria live for a very long time, there’s a pretty simple explanation – if you go looking for them, better look underground,” he told“In Japan, the government runs perhaps the largest nutritional survey in the world since 1975, and found Okinawa eat the least vegetables in Japan and has the highest BMI . They’ve always had the worst health in Japan.”“Stepney was full of super centenarians, it is the English blue zone” said Dr Newman.
Meanwhile, František Bartoš, from the University of Amsterdam, and his team scooped up the Ig Nobel prize for probability, after they found that. “So I was gathering my friends, colleagues and students to gather on Saturdays and Sundays, in total we had 49 people contributing to flipping coins in the research.”
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