The 'gay' bomb won the 2007 Ig Nobel prize

The pioneering study of making " gay " bombs makes hostile troops " unable to not love each other " instead of fighting war has won one of this year's Ig Nobel awards. Other award winning works include vanilla extract from cow dung, side effects of sword swallowing, and rat fatigue treatment with Vigara.

The Ig Nobel Prize was born in 1992 to honor achievements that make people " laugh first, think later ". The awards ceremony took place yesterday, October 4, at Harvard University, USA.

Dan Meyer, Executive Director of the International Swallowing Association, and author of the Sword Swallowing and its Side-Effects award, said: "I am extremely surprised and honored to know that I am not only being asked but I also won the award.

His research shows that when a professional sword swallow swallows each one carefully, it will not be harmful, but if you swallow a lot of swords, with a blade that has a strange shape, or gets distracted when swallowing, it will hurt. The study also suggests that the person performing should not swallow the sword if he has a sore throat.

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No one from the US military did research to create a gay love-promoting chemical between hostile troops attending the ceremony, because they could not let anyone find the area. Like its companion is the Nobel Prize, Ig Nobel prizes are also divided into categories.

Medicine - Brain Witcombe at Gloucestershire Royal Society of England and Dan Meyer works on studying the health consequences of sword swallowing.

Physics - The US team - Chile explains the mechanism why the bed sheet is wrinkled.

Biology - Dr Johanna van Bronswijk in the Netherlands conducted a census of all termites, insects, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, which share a bed with us.

Chemistry - Mayu Yamamoto from Japan found a way to extract vanilla incense from cow dung.

Linguistics - The group at the University of Barcelona, ​​Spain, proved that rats could not recognize the difference between a Japanese speaker and a Dutch speaker.

Literature - Glenda Browne in Blue Mountains, Australia, studied the "the" article and found out how embarrassing it was for those who wanted to rank alphabetically.

Peace - The US Air Force Wright Laboratory develops a chemical weapon that promotes homosexual behavior among hostile troops.

Nutrition - Brian Wansink at Cornell University, USA, investigates human appetite limits by giving participants a bowl of bottomless soup (self-filling).

Economics - Kuo Cheng Hsieh in Taiwan is granted a patent for a device that can capture banks by dropping them over them.

Aviation - The group at Argentina's National University of Quilmes has discovered impotence drugs that can help hamsters get rid of fatigue.

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