This 2013 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine goes to a research team from Japan, China, and the UK that studied the effects of opera music on heart transplant patients. Don't be so excited,the patients are mice
Winners and their research post on the improbable site:
MEDICINE PRIZE: Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi , for assessing the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice.
Research article title: "Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ cells"
PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE:Laurent Bègue, Brad J. Bushman, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra, Medhi Ourabah
REFERENCE: "'Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beer Holder': People Who Think They Are Drunk Also Think They Are Attractive,"
How to make myself more attractive ? Get some Beer!
JOINT PRIZE IN BIOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY:
Goes to "Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation"--by Marie Dacke,Emily Baird,Marcus Byrne,Clarke Scholtz,and Eric J. Warrant. For discovering that African dung beetles do not orientate to the individual stars, but to the Milky Way.
Ok,dung beetles will soon be the rock star of the animal kingdom,genius!
Guys,I can't write this post no more,LOl in the office will not make a Ig Nobel Prize Winner,seriously!
I gonna continue with my 220v human body experiment (on myself of course ) in the weekends!
To see if I will more attractive or not ! I am big fan of Science here
Please Google "2013 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony " and enjoy the YouTube video.
Ciao!
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