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World Stupidity Award- a prize that, from 2008 to 2008, was awarded “for the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance.” The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs comedy festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
The last three ceremonies were hosted by American comedian Lewis Black.
2006 Laureates
In 2006, categories awarded included:
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(If anyone is interested in the details of the real fate of Radomir, Magdalena, the Cathars and the Templars, please look at the Additions after the chapters of Isidora or a separate (but still in preparation) book “Children of the Sun”, when it will be posted on the website www.levashov.info for free copying).I stood completely shocked, as was almost always the case after another story from Sever...
Was that tiny, newly born boy really the famous Jacques de Molay?! How many different wonderful legends I have heard about this mysterious man!.. How many miracles were associated with his life in the stories I once loved!
(Unfortunately, the wonderful legends about this mysterious man have not survived to this day... He, like Radomir, was made a weak, cowardly and spineless master who “failed” to save his great Order...)
– Can you tell us a little more about him, Sever? Was he such a powerful prophet and miracle worker as my father once told me?..
Smiling at my impatience, Sever nodded affirmatively.
– Yes, I’ll tell you about him, Isidora... I knew him for many years. And I spoke to him many times. I loved this man very much... And I missed him very much.
I didn’t ask why he didn’t help him during the execution? This made no sense, since I already knew his answer.
– What are you doing?! Did you talk to him?!. Please, you will tell me about this, Sever?! – I exclaimed.
I know, I looked like a child with my delight... But it didn’t matter. Sever understood how important his story was for me and patiently helped me.
“But I would like to first find out what happened to his mother and the Cathars.” I know that they died, but I would like to see it with my own eyes... Please help me, North.
And again reality disappeared, returning me to Montsegur, where wonderful brave people lived their last hours - students and followers of Magdalene...
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Esclarmonde lay quietly on the bed. Her eyes were closed, it seemed that she was sleeping, exhausted by losses... But I felt that this was just protection. She just wanted to be left alone with her sadness... Her heart suffered endlessly. The body refused to obey... Just a few moments ago, her hands were holding her newborn son... They were hugging her husband... Now they went into the unknown. And no one could say with certainty whether they would be able to escape the hatred of the “hunters” who had infested the foot of Montsegur. And the entire valley, as far as the eye could see... The fortress was the last stronghold of Qatar, after which there was nothing left. They suffered a complete defeat... Exhausted by hunger and winter cold, they were helpless against the stone “rain” of catapults that rained down on Montsegur from morning to night.
Stella Award(English: The TRUE Stella Awards) - a prize awarded annually for the most ridiculous judicial decision in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself at a McDonald's restaurant in 1992 and then sued the restaurant, where a jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages.
(Ignobel Prize, Anti-Nobel Prize, Ig Nobel Prize) - a parody of the Nobel Prize, where they are awarded for the most ridiculous and useless research. Ten Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded in early October, that is, at the time when the winners of the real Nobel Prize are named, and the actual Nobel laureates present it to the applicants, and the award ceremony takes place at Harvard and is broadcast on American television and radio in several languages. The prize was founded by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine Annals of Incredible Research in 1991.
Darwin Award("Darwin Awards") - a virtual prize awarded annually to individuals who have died or lost their reproductive function in the most stupid way and, as a result, have deprived themselves of the opportunity to contribute to the gene pool of humanity, thereby improving it. A prerequisite for receiving the prize is the complete absence of direct descendants.
(English Golden Raspberry) is an anti-award created in 1981 by American John Wilson, recognizing the worst acting, script, director, film song and film of the year. By tradition, the Golden Raspberry nominees are announced the day before the announcement of the Oscar nominees, and the laureates the day before the Oscar laureates. The prize is a plastic raspberry covered in gold spray paint, valued at $5.
« Silver galosh" - an award established by the radio "Silver Rain" is awarded "for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business." Established in 1996, the author of the idea of the award was Pavel Vashchekin, the ceremony is held annually.
Anti-premium " Glass bolt“was established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and is awarded for stupid or harmful decisions of Moscow officials involved in the “development” of the city. The laureates are awarded the “Glass Bolt” figurine - a symbol of narrow-mindedness and crookedness. Since 2012, the award has been declared all-Russian
Chicken Chicken Award(eng. Chicken Little Award, named after the main character of the cartoon Walt Disney's Chicken Little), full name The "Chicken Little" Award for Exaggerated Predictions About the Impending Destruction of Our Environment - a humorous prize established by the Center for National Concern at the same time as the Julian Simon Prize, awarded for a sober look at the same problems.
Lantern Rouge(French: Lanterne rouge; red lantern) - cyclist who took last place in the overall standings of the Tour de France; also the name of the prize awarded to that athlete. The name comes from the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
World Stupidity Award- an award founded in 2003 to reward the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance. The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs comedy festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
Literary anti-prize "Paragraph" has been awarded since the fall of 2001 in four categories: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). For “particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature” an “Honorary Illiteracy” is awarded. The “prizewinners” are determined by a special expert council based on reader opinions sent to the editorial office of the Knizhnoe Obozrenie newspaper.
We are accustomed to prizes being awarded for certain achievements and merits. But unfortunately, the examples that individuals or organizations set are not only positive, but also negative.
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And some part of society also considers it necessary to celebrate some of the most striking of such negative examples, not so that others will repeat them, of course, but vice versa. This post contains a list of the most famous “anti-prizes”, i.e. prizes that are awarded for dubious, stupid and harmful actions and “achievements”.
Darwin Award
Perhaps the most indisputable anti-premium. After all, it is awarded to those who, due to their own stupidity, died or lost the opportunity to have offspring and thereby removed their genes from the gene pool of humanity. The name of the award alludes to the principle of natural selection formulated by Darwin - for the development of a species, the best must survive, and the worst, including the stupidest, must die. For more than a dozen years, the prize has been awarded (mostly posthumously) to many people who have passed away in the most ridiculous ways. For example, in 1996 the prize winner was Krzysztof Azninski, 30 years old, from Poland. Together with friends, Krzysztof celebrated his imminent wedding. When one of the guests suggested that everyone strip naked and “go wild for the last time,” everyone immediately agreed. At first, the guys ran after each other with frozen turnips in their hands and tried to hit their partner as hard as possible. However, then someone came across a chainsaw. Krzysztof's future best man grabbed her and declared that he would show her what real men could do. Before the friends had time to look back, he turned on the saw and cut off his foot. This is where Krzysztof’s finest hour came. With a cry “Just think - a leg, this is nonsense! Is it so weak? he cut off his own head in the blink of an eye. “It’s all strange,” one of Krzysztof’s friends later recalled. “As a child, he loved to wear his older sister’s underwear. And he died like a real man.”
Ig Nobel Prize
The most famous of the awards for dubious scientific achievements. It's easy to guess from the title that it parodies the Nobel Prize. The prize has been awarded since 1991 and many not only British scientists, but also scientists from other countries have become its laureates. Interestingly, the prize is officially awarded at Harvard, the prize is presented by real Nobel laureates, and the ceremony is broadcast on American television. For example, one of the prizes in the field of probability theory was awarded by the organizing committee of the Ig Nobel Prize to a team from the Scottish Agricultural College. They found that “the longer a cow lies down, the more likely it is that she will get up soon.” There is no inverse relationship - “it is impossible to easily predict when a standing cow will lie down again.” In the experiments, scientists were not content with a visual assessment; sensors were attached to the cow's legs, recording the time spent by the cows in a lying and standing position.
Stella Award
An award given to the dumbest court decisions or lawsuits in the United States. The award was named after Stella Liebeck, who, after buying hot coffee at McDonald's, spilled it on herself, and then filed a lawsuit against the company because she was not warned that the coffee was hot and could get burned. Then the court made a decision obliging the company to pay almost $3 million in compensation for damage caused. Since American citizens love to litigate, and the US judicial system is full of miracles, there are plenty of nominations for the award. Among the people awarded the Stella Prize, for example, are the following. A certain lady was driving in her car along a snowy road when a pedestrian suddenly ran out onto the road. Not having time to stop the car in time, the woman hit the poor guy, who later died before her eyes. A few days later, the lady sued the widow of the pedestrian she hit, demanding compensation for moral damages. She stated that her peace of mind had suffered an irreparable blow as she watched the death throes of the deceased, and that for this suffering she was entitled to compensation from the widow. Another American woman went to the store and decided to buy a coffee maker. Four coffee makers in boxes stood on a shelf, one on top of the other in a column. The woman pulled out the lowest box. Of course, the top three boxes immediately fell on her. She sued the store for failing to warn her that if she removed the bottom box, the top boxes could fall on her and cause her physical harm.
"Golden Raspberry"
A popular “anti-award” in the cinema industry. It traditionally marks the most dubious achievements in the field of cinematography over the past year. This award is a parody of the Oscars and is awarded in 11 categories. Every ten years, “outstanding” films of the decade are awarded, and in 2005, the 25th anniversary award ceremony took place, during which the worst films and actors for the entire existence of the “anti-award” were highlighted. Until 2008, the record for the number of collected raspberries was held by the films “Battlefield: Earth” and “Show Girls” - each of them was “lucky” to grab 7 awards. In 2008, the film “I Know Who Killed Me” managed to break the record - 8 awards out of 9 nominations. The unsurpassed actor in terms of the number of awards received to date is Sylvester Stallone, who has collected 10 awards over his long creative life.
"Silver Galosh"
Russian “anti-prize”, established in 1996 by the radio “Silver Rain”. It is awarded annually for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business. Since its inception, many famous artists, officials and politicians have become laureates of the award.
"Paragraph"
Another “anti-prize”, which since 2001 has been awarded for the most dubious “achievements” in the field of book printing. It is awarded in four main categories and one additional: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for “particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature”, in As a bonus prize, an “Honorary Certificate” is awarded. The “laureates” are determined by a special expert council based on reader opinions sent to the editorial office of the Knizhnoe Obozrenie newspaper.
Runet Anti-Premium
Russian independent award for alternative achievements in the field of Runet - both positive and dubious - “as opposed to” the Runet Prize. The Runet Anti-Prize is awarded to both Internet projects and individuals who, for some reason, were bypassed by official competitions, awards and prizes.
Glass Bolt Award
Established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of developing the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.
Latern Rouge
The award is given to the cyclist who finishes last in the Tour de France. Translated as “Red Lantern”, this award is named after the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
The ceremony brought together authors who seriously studied issues that were more like a joke. The real prizes were given - a statuette and 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. It's actually not as much as it seems.
Not too scrupulous housewives already knew, and now science has confirmed: human saliva removes dirt better than a cleaner. Chemists from Portugal tried to clean paintings and gilded sculptures with various reagents from ammonia to toluene. But the old “spit and wipe” method gave the best results.
For 28 years, Harvard University has been flying paper airplanes, fooling around, handing out awards for the most ridiculous scientific achievements, and silencing winners if their acceptance speech lasts more than a minute.
David Wortinger from the University of Michigan made a discovery that, as required by the rules of the Ig Nobel Committee, first made me laugh and then made me think. A trip to Luna Park will help remove kidney stones. One of his patients got rid of three stones at once when he rode a roller coaster.
“Big, powerful rides are not good. What people think. The higher the slide, the faster you fly along it, the better. Nothing of the kind. We found out that to influence the stones you need to drive slowly, no more than 50 kilometers per hour, but with sharp turns, and so that it shakes a lot. You need to get into the last carriage. Then the stones are crushed well,” said Ig Nobel Prize winner in medicine David Wortinger.
The experience of the Ig Nobel Prize laureates in biology was repeated by the Nobel Prize laureates and honorary guests of the ceremony. And now it has been proven twice: the fruit fly Drosophila can change the taste of wine by getting into it for just a few seconds.
The Nobel in Economics was awarded to a team from Canada, the USA, China and Singapore. Researchers asked disgruntled employees to take it out on a bad boss by transferring their emotions to a voodoo doll.
“People who took revenge on the boss-like doll felt relieved. For them, justice was restored,” explained Ig Nobel Prize laureate in economics Douglas Brown.
“Where is the economy?” - the journalist asked for clarification.
“We don’t even know ourselves. We thought they would give us the Peace Prize!” - answered the scientist.
James Cole from Great Britain proved that ancient people did not engage in cannibalism because of hunger. The calorie content of human meat is only 125 kilocalories, which is several times less than the calorie content of, for example, a mammoth. For his discovery, like all laureates, Cole received 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.
“Well, since I’m a trillionaire now, I’ll probably retire. In general, Zimbabwe, in my opinion, has already switched to dollars. And it's about 30 cents in total. You can’t even buy a hamburger,” said James Cole.
Japanese Akira Horiuchi received an Ignobel for his study “Colonoscopy in a sitting position.” He was convinced from personal experience that performing this procedure while sitting is no less effective than traditionally lying down. And now, like every Ig Nobel laureate, he will be given the opportunity to give a lecture about it at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Already in early October, Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. And in history, by the way, there have been cases when Ig Nobel laureates also received a Nobel a few years later. Therefore, the ceremony in Cambridge traditionally ends with the words: if you are an Ig Nobel laureate, and especially if you are not, we wish you good luck next year!
What is the Ig Nobel Prize awarded for? For the funniest inventions and research of scientists, which are sometimes brought to the point of complete absurdity. This award is the opposite of the Nobel Prize. Let's look at the most interesting cases of the latest awards, as well as original moments from past ceremonies.
What do you get for an Ig Nobel Prize?
The 27th ceremony took place at Harvard University. As you know, the award is awarded for achievements that are dubious and fake from a scientific point of view. The winner receives 10 trillion Zimbambwean dollars, which, due to crazy inflation, have long been withdrawn from circulation. It is worth noting that in 2009 in Zimbabwe, a loaf of bread cost 50 trillion. In addition, each participant receives one minute for public speaking. This time the winners were interrupted by a little girl, who said that they were boring and uninteresting.
Physics
In this category, Marc Antoine Fardine won, stating that cats can exist not only in their usual state, but also take on solid, liquid and gaseous configurations. According to the scientist, the ability to fill vessels with cats refers to the parameters of a liquid, and the complete coverage of the volume is included among the criteria of a gas.
Peace Prize category
In this part, viewers were treated to a statement no less interesting than a treatise on the rheology of cats. The “award” went to a team of scientists who announced the discovery of a new method of treating snoring. This know-how became an original musical instrument - the didgeridoo. According to months of research by a group of enthusiasts, playing this device can provide restful sleep for snorers after four months of using the product. The didgeridoo itself is a hollow trunk of a eucalyptus tree, used by Australian Aborigines as a kind of wind instrument.
Biology and hydrodynamics
Here the palm went to Charles Foster and Thomas Thwaites. The Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to these scientists for their attempt to transform into an Alpine goat. For three days, Thomas grazed in the meadows, using special prosthetics to bring the conditions as close as possible to the life of an artiodactyl animal. It is worth noting that Foster also transformed into animals. He, as a fox, rummaged through garbage cans and slept in gardens. The purpose of the research is to get rid of the stress created by modern civilization and to better understand the life of animals.
Among the funniest Ig Nobel prizes is the award that was received by scientists from Korea and the United States. Their research consisted of studying the most convenient way to transport coffee. It turned out that it is best to carry the drink, so as not to spill it, in a wine glass (while walking quickly). Slow movement involves using a standard cup, and the most effective method is to cover the mug with your palm, while walking backwards.
Medicine and obstetrics
In the Ig Nobel Prize, the funniest victories were in medicine and obstetrics. For example, neuroscientists from France presented evidence that there is an area in the human brain that is responsible for the love of cheese. According to their theory, in people who categorically do not perceive cheese, this part of the brain looks like a pallidum and a substantia nigra.
A Spanish group of scientists conducted an equally interesting study. According to its results, a child in the mother’s womb perceives musical works much better if they are played in the vagina. Moreover, a device for such manipulation has already been patented.
Anatomy and economics
After “liquid” cats, the Ig Nobel Prize in the field of anatomy went to British scientists. This time the object of study was large ears in older people. It turned out that after thirty years this organ begins to grow again. Moreover, this happens more actively in men than in women, which is explained by several objective reasons.
As for economics, two scientists from Australia have proven that the interaction between a crocodile and a person (direct contact) increases the degree of gambling of a person. As an experiment, those who wished were allowed to hold the reptile in their hands, after which the player’s style of play changed, unless, of course, he experienced discomfort and fear during contact with the alligator.
Food sector
Marc Antoine Fardine presented the theory of liquid cats, and scientists from Latin America studied bats. It turns out that these animals have human DNA. We are talking about a specific type of flying rodent, the so-called “vampires”. The presence of human cells is associated with disruption of animal habitats as a result of urbanization. In connection with these, the “flyers” are forced to feed on “human flesh”.
Ig Nobel Prize: the funniest facts about famous people
In 2013, the award in question went to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. He was awarded the prize due to the fact that, in order to avoid violations of public order and undermine the authority of the country, he passed a law prohibiting loud applause in public places. The authorities took these measures in response to protests and discontent among the population of the republic. The punishment was a fine or 15 days of arrest. One of the worst offenders of this law was a one-armed disabled man who had to pay a fine of $200.
Back in 1993, the Ig Nobel Prize winner was Robert Feid, who, using mathematical calculations, determined the likelihood of how Gorbachev could be the Devil himself. The probability was 1 in 710,609,175,188,282,000.
In addition to the theory about the rheology of cats, scientists received the Ig Nobel Prize for equally absurd projects. Among them:
- The award in question was posthumously awarded to Egyptian scientist Ahmed Shafik. The researcher put panties made of different materials on rats and came to the conclusion that the sexual activity of rodents decreases if they wear underwear with the addition of synthetics.
- Professor Mark Avis from New Zealand received the Ig Nobel Prize in Economics. He got it for his work, in which he argued that stones have a distinct personality. This presentation came into the field of economics due to criticism of the popular marketing theory of Jennifer Aaker, the main idea of which was that the user perceives a brand as a celebrity, correlating the brand's fame with his personality. As a result, Aaker's theory was completely destroyed.
- Christoph Helmen and his colleagues received the Ig Nobel Award in the field of medicine. Scientists have found that if a person has something itchy on the right side, he needs to go to the mirror and scratch a similar place on the left.
- In the Psychology category, the winner was Belgian Evelyn Daby, who studied the influence of age on the ability to lie. The subjects deliberately told lies, after which the speed with which they did so was assessed. It turned out that over the years, lying is not so easy, and the most skillful liars are teenagers.
- A pair of paleontologists from North America (B. Krendel and P. Stahl) examined the remains of Paleozoic inhabitants. In the process, they decided to pour boiling water over an ancient petrified shrew, after which they swallowed it without chewing it. The purpose of the experiment is to study excrement in order to understand which parts of the chitinous shell and bones of the animal are not subject to the digestion process.
- The president of the Japanese Security and Investigation Agency, Takeshi Makino, developed a special gel. It made it possible to determine whether a husband was cheating on his wife. To do this, it was enough to spray the spray on the man’s underwear. After contact with seminal fluid, the aerosol turned bright green, confirming the fact of treason.
- One received the Schnobel Prize for providing evidence of why some people experience terrible discomfort when chalk or a fingernail squeaks on a blackboard. It turned out that the increased volume of this sound resembles the cries of chimpanzees, warning of danger.
- The work of Michael Smith is no less entertaining. He decided to find out which parts of the body react most painfully to a bee sting. To do this, he placed insects on his organs. It turned out that the most vulnerable was the genital organ, as well as the nostrils and upper lip.
In conclusion
One of the strangest competitions in the world is the Ig Nobel Prize. Liquid cats is one of the sections that is considered the most extraordinary and funny achievement of 2017. If you study all the nominations for different years, then among the laureates of this award, almost all scientists have some oddities that are incomprehensible to ordinary people and more serious colleagues.