Brasil é lembrado novamente no Ignobel

Se nosso país não ganha o prêmio Nobel, estamos presentes, novamente, na premiação do Ignobel. Eis a listagem (grifo nosso)

Applied Cardiology: Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh, and Mariska Kret, for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize.

Literature: Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, and Edward Gibson, for analyzing what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand.

Biology: Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, for studying whether and how constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions.

Medicine: Marcin Jasiński, Martyna Maciejewska, Anna Brodziak, Michał Górka, Kamila Skwierawska, Wiesław Jędrzejczak, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Grzegorz Basak, and Emilian Snarski, for showing that when patients undergo some forms of toxic chemotherapy, they suffer fewer harmful side effects when ice cream replaces one traditional component of the procedure.

Engineering: Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, for trying to discover the most efficient way for people to use their fingers when turning a knob.

Art History: Peter de Smet and Nicholas Hellmuth, for their study “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery.”

Physics: Frank Fish, Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji, and Atilla Incecik, for trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation.

Peace: Junhui Wu, Szabolcs Számadó, Pat Barclay, Bianca Beersma, Terence Dores Cruz, Sergio Lo Iacono, Annika Nieper, Kim Peters, Wojtek Przepiorka, Leo Tiokhin and Paul Van Lange, for developing an algorithm to help gossipers decide when to tell the truth and when to lie.

Economics: Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest.

Safety Engineering: Magnus Gens, for developing a moose crash test dummy.

O jornal The Guardian destacou o estudo japonês para a maçaneta da porta: eles chegaram a conclusão que quanto maior o botão, mais dedos são necessários para girar. The Scientist colocou a foto de um escorpião - objeto da pesquisa no Brasil. 

Os ganhadores irão receber uma nota de dolar do Zimbabwe, país que vive uma elevada inflação há anos. 

É praxe alguns prêmios parecerem interessantes. O de economia acho que parece o caso.