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Covid, from Bolsonaro to Trump, the Ig Nobels to the powerful of the pandemic

2020-09-18T08:23:20.063Z


They have had more impact than science on citizens' life and death (ANSA)In the midst of a pandemic, politics can do more than science on the life and death of a population: this is explained by the motivation for the 2020 IgNobel prize, which since 1991 has been awarded to the most extravagant researches and which this year went to leaders like Jair Bolsonaro , Boris Johnson, Narendra Modi, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, alongside those of Mexi


In the midst of a pandemic, politics can do more than science on the life and death of a population: this is explained by the motivation for the 2020 IgNobel prize, which since 1991 has been awarded to the most extravagant researches and which this year went to leaders like Jair Bolsonaro , Boris Johnson, Narendra Modi, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, alongside those of Mexico, Belarus and Turkmenistan.

The organization is from the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, thanks to funding from science fiction associations and physics students at Harvard University.

During the pandemic, the motivation reads, award-winning politicians have shown that their power can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.

In a completely online edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Sanders Theater of Harvard University, which traditionally hosts the awards ceremony, remained closed, but a very lively video still managed to make the inevitable surreal and full atmosphere of surprises, such as the animation of the interior of the theater with an enthusiastic insect audience.



In fact, insects were the theme of the 2020 edition of the Ig Nobel, even in truth only one of the awarded research is consistent with this theme: it is the one that experimentally determined how the shape of an earthworm changes when it is vibrated at high levels. frequencies.

It is also one of the two with an Italian contribution, alongside that of Brazilians, Poles and Americans.

The other research with also Italian signatures has instead tried to quantify the relationship between the disparity in the GDP of some countries and the average quantity of kisses on the mouth.

To all the winners, a ten trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe and an assembly box with assembly instructions on one side.

Source: ansa

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