At the Sanders Theater at Harvard University, the 28th annual ceremony of the awarding of the Shnobel Prizes took place. As reported on the website of the award, the awards received ten laureates, each of which "made people laugh first and then think about".
The Guardian clarifies that this year one of the most "prestigious" awards in the field of economics went to a group of scientists from Canada, China, Singapore and the United States.
In February, Lindy Hanju Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiven Lian, Samuel Hanig, Lance Ferris and Lisa Heyrings published the article "The Right to the Wrong" in The Leadership Quarterly magazine, in which they argued that the voodoo doll in the guise of a boss could help overcome injustice at work. Experts came to the conclusion that workers who pierced such dolls with pins triumphed with a sense of justice and they felt better.
"Compared to those who did not torture a doll resembling a superior, those who did it felt a greater sense of justice," the authors of the study noted in the article.
The prize in the field of medicine was received by urologists from Michigan who came to the conclusion that it is much easier to remove stones from the kidneys if the patient rolls on a roller coaster.
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Literary Nomad was awarded to specialists from Australia, El Salvador and Great Britain for a report entitled "Life is too short for RTFM (from English -" Read the fucking instruction "- 9tv)".
In their work, Tea Blakler, Raphael Gomez, Vesna Popovich and Helen Thompson argued that people who use sophisticated technologies or gadgets almost never read the instructions and therefore do not use all their functions.
The prize was awarded to a group of Spanish specialists who were interested in the topic of curses and abuse on the part of drivers. The prize was also awarded to Swedish philosophers who observed that chimpanzees mimic human behavior in the same way that humans imitate chimpanzees. The biology award also went to the Swedes, who proved: professional tasters can taste the wine in which the fly was visited.