For any parents wondering how much saliva their 5-year-old produces, a Japanese team has the answer: about 500 ml per day. The discovery landed the team of five a "prestigious" Ig Nobel chemistry award, a spoof prize that aims to "celebrate the unusual, honor the ...
Do-it-yourself colonoscopy wins Japanese doctor one of 10 2018 Ig Nobels
A Japanese doctor was recognized Thursday with an Ig Nobel prize, which honor comical but practical scientific studies, for devising the most comfortable colonoscopy technique by using himself as a test subject. Akira Horiuchi, a 57-year-old head of the digestive disease center at Showa Inan ...
Research into reverse-sex genitalia deserved award
In caves in Brazil there lives a tiny insect with the most extraordinary story. It feeds on bat droppings and chews on the dead carcasses of fallen bats. When it copulates, it does so slowly — a single sexual act takes up to 70 ...
A group of four scientists, including two from Japan, won the spoof Ig Nobel biology prize on Thursday for their discovery of insects with genitalia that reverse the traditional sex roles. The recipients include Kazunori Yoshizawa, associate professor at Hokkaido University, and Yoshitaka Kamimura, associate ...
Psychology professor on perserverance, doubt and the influence of his teachers
Japanese scientists bend over forward to win an Ig Nobel prize for perception study
Two scientists from Japan won the spoof Ig Nobel perception prize Thursday for determining that objects look smaller when viewing them bent over and between one's legs. Ritsumeikan University professor Atsuki Higashiyama accepted a 61-second clock, an "award paper," and a "Zimbabwean" $10 trillion ...
Kiss and tell? Ig Nobel-winning doctor gives inside dish on smooching study
The discovery by a Japanese doctor that kissing can reduce allergic reactions in humans, for which he won the 2015 spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize, has posed a dilemma for a Japanese woman — she wanted to see her condition improved but did not ...
Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel medicine prize for kissing study
A Japanese doctor won this year's Ig Nobel medicine prize for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans.
Huh? Kissing nothing to sneeze at? Osaka doctor's allergy relief study bags Ig Nobel award
A Japanese scientist won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans. "I wish that people will understand the new effect of kissing and I also hope that kissing will ...
Studies on mouse rehab music and onion tears win Ig Nobels
A study on how opera may prolong one's life and research into the complex mechanism of how chopping onions causes tears have earned two Japanese groups an Ig Nobel prize. The award, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research as a parody of the ...
In his Aug. 4 article, "Why Japan should amend its war-renouncing Article 9," Craig Martin tries to make a case for giving in to the demands of Japan's rightwing by ending 65 years of pacifism. Not only do I think that this is a ...
