Comments on: Friday Fun: Ig Nobels https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2021/09/10/friday-fun-ig-nobels/ All about electronics and circuit design Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2021/09/10/friday-fun-ig-nobels/comment-page-1/#comment-1752287 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 04:22:41 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=189505#comment-1752287 “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”
—Aristotle

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2021/09/10/friday-fun-ig-nobels/comment-page-1/#comment-1723965 Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:09:05 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=189505#comment-1723965 https://www.improbable.com/2021/09/09/announcing-the-2021-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2021/09/10/friday-fun-ig-nobels/comment-page-1/#comment-1723961 Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:06:33 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=189505#comment-1723961 Martial artists ahoy: this important Ig Nobel winning research shows that having a beard allows your jaw to take significantly greater impact before breaking.

U researchers receive Ig Nobel Peace Prize for study of beards as punch protection
https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/ig-nobel-beard/

In a webcast announcement, University of Utah researchers David Carrier and Steven Naleway, along with recent graduate Ethan Beseris, were awarded the 2021 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for a study exploring whether beards may serve an evolutionary purpose to protect the jaw during a fistfight.

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