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"Ceremonial safety gesture" from Dr. Stephan Bollinger, winner of the 2009 IgNobel Peace Prize for determining whether it is worse to be smashed over the head with a full beer bottle or an empty one: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013
(He smashes a prop bottle over his head)
Aside: This event, the highlight of the scientific community's calendar, is being held outside the US for the first time, because of *gestures* all this #IgNobel
The Biomechanics Prize goes to this team for defining "kissing as a non-agonistic interaction involving directed, intraspecific, oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106788
The #Economics Prize goes to Dr. Paul K. Piff & co. for this 2012 study showing that (among other things) rich people steal more candy from a dish marked "for children" https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
Some of the researchers from this paper on how cockroach milk has 3 times more protein than cow milk are summarizing their findings in song. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252516008903
More on cockroach milk: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/06/488861223/cockroach-milk-yes-you-read-that-right
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