Are insects being wiped out? Does the risk of mosquito-borne illness increase during floods? Why do we sleep so deeply when sick? And how does our gut bacteria affect our mental health?
SoT 245: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 16, 2016
- Tagged as: animals, brain, climate change, corporate fraud, Deepak Chopra, dragonflies, entomology, flies, fool, honesty, horseflies, Ig Nobel, intelligence, itch, liars, lie, marketing, perception, personalities, pollution, rats, rocks, rubbber hand trick, sex, Volkswagon
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from rats in pants to collecting flies!
Everything Zika with medical entomologist Dr. Cameron Webb!
13,000 Forgotten grasshoppers, antiviral abalone, vitamin k shot refusal blamed on antivaxxers, life found in a sub-glacial lake and a pregnant panda that isn’t pregnant.