Splash-free urinals take the only A+ on this year’s Ig Nobel list, and a snake-stepping study takes the F.
- Kissing, defined as lip movement with no food changing hands: exact, and I’d cite it.
- Rich people take candy meant for children, a 2012 study: C, and I’d call it old news.
- Cockroach milk proteins pack three times the energy of cow milk proteins: A, and I’m still not pouring it.
- Nose blowing, one nostril at a time, from 1977: a keeper.
- Stepping on venomous snakes to see what triggers a bite: retracted over ethics concerns. F.
- Splash-free urinals: A+.
- Mosquito mouthparts as 3D-printing nozzles, “necroprinting”: I’ll allow the name.
- Babies smell pleasant, teenagers don’t: no notes.
- 1,000 pairs of underwear buried in more than 25 countries for up to two months: dirty, and I admire the sample size.
- People value friends who are hostile toward their enemies: I could have told them that for free.
Cockroach milk still loses to the urinal.