Pee does not splash if the shower hits the urinal at an angle of less than 30 degrees. This was revealed in a study that won the humor Nobel for physics yesterday, Thursday.
Based on the results, the Canadian University of Waterloo’s research team designed a urinal whose shape minimizes splashes regardless of the urinal’s aim.
The so-called Humor Nobels The Ig Nobels were awarded on Thursday in Zurich, Switzerland. The awards have been given out 35 times before.
Humor Nobels are awarded in several categories. The awards are given to real research that makes “people first laugh and then think”, the founders describe.
Economics the prize was won by a study that shows that wealthy people are more likely to commit unethical behavior than people with lower incomes.
For example, they are more likely to take candy from children than people from lower social classes.
The subjects were left alone with a candy jar intended for children. When the researchers returned, those in the upper social class had eaten almost twice as much candy as the others.
The researchers also noticed that the same people were more likely to swerve in front of other cars at intersections and seemed to be more willing to lie in the workplace.
The prize for biology went to a study in which, by carefully stepping on different parts of snakes, it was found out what causes a venomous snake to bite a person.
Biomechanics humor nobelists drew up a precise definition of kissing. The winners of the Peace Prize, on the other hand, showed that people value friends who are rude to those they themselves dislike.
Humor-Nobel are divided into scientifically conducted studies, but which cause confusion and hysterics.
Ig-nobel is a translation of the English word ignoble meaning low or ignoble.
The prizes are awarded annually in September, while the actual Nobel announcements are in October. However, the events are not related to each other. The Ig Nobels are organized by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
The Nobel Prize for humor has also fallen to Finland, when in 2023 neuropsykologian erikoispsykologi Merita Turunen together with an international group of researchers found out why repeating the same word creates a strange feeling.