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India & Pakistan to get Ig Nobel Peace Prize

The first prizes were awarded in 1991.

This year, the Ig Nobel Peace Prize is being given to India and Pakistan for “having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door,” a reference to incidents that actually took place in 2018.

Besides Modi, the medical education prize was jointly awarded to Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan.

According to a statement, the Nobel Prize is given to these leaders for using the ‘COVID-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can’.

The Ig Nobel Prizes are satirical prizes awarded every year by a magazine named Annals of Improbable Research, specialising in humorous coverage and discussions of scientific developments. The name of the prizes is a play on the word ‘ignoble’, which is an antonym of ‘noble’, and the name of ‘Nobel’.

The first prizes were awarded in 1991. Past laureates include Andre Geim, who shared the physics Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for using magnets to levitate a frog – and shared the physics Nobel Prize in 2010 for his work on graphene.

This year’s awards also included a physics prize for work that recorded the shapes earthworms adopt when vibrated at high frequency. 

Chris Watkins, a British psychologist, shared the economics prize. His research found that French kissing was more common between partners in areas of high-income inequality. 

Boris Johnson shared the medical education prize with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and a choice selection of other world leaders for demonstrating during the Covid-19 pandemic that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.

The psychology prize went to researchers who discovered a way to identify grandiose narcissists from their eyebrows.

The acoustics prize went to a team that enticed a Chinese alligator to bellow at high pitch after inhaling helium.

The management prize went to five Chinese assassins who subcontracted the hit to each other but failed to get the job done.

Award winners also included a team of Dutch and Belgian researchers who looked at why the sound of chewing drives people mad.

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