Podcast 27: A look back at the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winners (PART 2)

Defecating magnetically aligned dogs, the relative pain suffered while seeing an ugly painting while being shot in the hand with a powerful laser beam, Italy’s addition of prostitution, treating nosebleeds by stuffing cured pork up the nose, reindeer’s reactions to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears, and Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages — all these all turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.

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This week, Marc Abrahams tells about:

The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winners – PART 2.  (List of the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winners, with links to their research. Featuring a dramatic reading by Daniel Rosenberg.) Here’s a Reuters photo from the on-stage demonstration, at the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, of the prize-winning method of treating “uncontrollable” nosebleeds by using the method of pork-up-the-nose: 
The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony (and webcast).

The mysterious John Schedler perhaps did the sound engineering this week.

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