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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:09:42)
"Ceremonial safety gesture" from Dr. Stephan Bollinger, winner of the 2009 IgNobel Peace Prize for determining whether it is worse to be smashed over the head with a full beer bottle or an empty one: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013
(He smashes a prop bottle over his head)
#IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:14:07)
Aside: This event, the highlight of the scientific community's calendar, is being held outside the US for the first time, because of *gestures* all this #IgNobel
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neville park@nev@flipping.rocks (2026-09-04 02:31:04)
The Biomechanics Prize goes to this team for defining "kissing as a non-agonistic interaction involving directed, intraspecific, oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106788
#IgNobel