Old news but wtf….

A man stung dozens of times by bees, mathematicians who wanted to know whether a man could physically be able to sire 600 sons, and chemists who unboiled an egg were honoured with one of science’s most storied awards, the Ig Nobel prize.

Entomologist Justin Schmidt and Cornell researcher Michael Smith jointly won for their painstaking experiments charting how painful insect stings are, and where the stings hurt worst. Smith pressed bees up against different parts of his body until the insects stung him, five stings a day, a total of 25 different locations, for 38 days. He rated the pain one to 10. The most painful parts: the nostril, the upper lip, the shaft of the penis.

Smith was joined onstage by Schmidt, who has also sacrificed various parts of his body for science in his decades specializing in stinging insects. Schmidt’s “sting pain index” rates only on a scale of one to four, but also features the entomologist’s descriptions of 78 sorts of stings, written with the flair of a sommelier in a wine cellar with something to prove.

..Moulay Ismail the bloodthirsty, born in 1672 and dead at the age of 55, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer studied whether it would be physically possible for a man to sire 600 sons as the fable alleges.

Not to be outdone in the realm of juvenile curiosity, biologists from Chile and the US won for attaching sticks to the rear ends of chickens to see how it would make them walk. The chickens walked “in a manner similar to which dinosaurs are thought to have walk”, the scientists concluded triumphantly.

The chemistry prize went to American and Australian researchers who managed to partially unboil an egg with a vortex fluid device, a high speed machine that converts unfolded proteins into folded proteins.

Their results, published in ChemBioChem, show that the team was able to refold proteins thousands of times faster than previous methods. In theory, the device has far greater application than resetting eggs: it could do everything from revolutionize the manufacturing of cancer treatments to overhaul the industrial production of cheese.

And more…

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

Ian said:

Old news but wtf….

A man stung dozens of times by bees, mathematicians who wanted to know whether a man could physically be able to sire 600 sons, and chemists who unboiled an egg were honoured with one of science’s most storied awards, the Ig Nobel prize.

Entomologist Justin Schmidt and Cornell researcher Michael Smith jointly won for their painstaking experiments charting how painful insect stings are, and where the stings hurt worst. Smith pressed bees up against different parts of his body until the insects stung him, five stings a day, a total of 25 different locations, for 38 days. He rated the pain one to 10. The most painful parts: the nostril, the upper lip, the shaft of the penis.

Smith was joined onstage by Schmidt, who has also sacrificed various parts of his body for science in his decades specializing in stinging insects. Schmidt’s “sting pain index” rates only on a scale of one to four, but also features the entomologist’s descriptions of 78 sorts of stings, written with the flair of a sommelier in a wine cellar with something to prove.

..Moulay Ismail the bloodthirsty, born in 1672 and dead at the age of 55, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer studied whether it would be physically possible for a man to sire 600 sons as the fable alleges.

Not to be outdone in the realm of juvenile curiosity, biologists from Chile and the US won for attaching sticks to the rear ends of chickens to see how it would make them walk. The chickens walked “in a manner similar to which dinosaurs are thought to have walk”, the scientists concluded triumphantly.

The chemistry prize went to American and Australian researchers who managed to partially unboil an egg with a vortex fluid device, a high speed machine that converts unfolded proteins into folded proteins.

Their results, published in ChemBioChem, show that the team was able to refold proteins thousands of times faster than previous methods. In theory, the device has far greater application than resetting eggs: it could do everything from revolutionize the manufacturing of cancer treatments to overhaul the industrial production of cheese.

And more…

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

He let bees sting his dick?

• He let bees sting his dick?

Even worse, he forced them to do it…

dv said:

Ian said:

Old news but wtf….

A man stung dozens of times by bees, mathematicians who wanted to know whether a man could physically be able to sire 600 sons, and chemists who unboiled an egg were honoured with one of science’s most storied awards, the Ig Nobel prize.

Entomologist Justin Schmidt and Cornell researcher Michael Smith jointly won for their painstaking experiments charting how painful insect stings are, and where the stings hurt worst. Smith pressed bees up against different parts of his body until the insects stung him, five stings a day, a total of 25 different locations, for 38 days. He rated the pain one to 10. The most painful parts: the nostril, the upper lip, the shaft of the penis.

Smith was joined onstage by Schmidt, who has also sacrificed various parts of his body for science in his decades specializing in stinging insects. Schmidt’s “sting pain index” rates only on a scale of one to four, but also features the entomologist’s descriptions of 78 sorts of stings, written with the flair of a sommelier in a wine cellar with something to prove.

..Moulay Ismail the bloodthirsty, born in 1672 and dead at the age of 55, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer studied whether it would be physically possible for a man to sire 600 sons as the fable alleges.

Not to be outdone in the realm of juvenile curiosity, biologists from Chile and the US won for attaching sticks to the rear ends of chickens to see how it would make them walk. The chickens walked “in a manner similar to which dinosaurs are thought to have walk”, the scientists concluded triumphantly.

The chemistry prize went to American and Australian researchers who managed to partially unboil an egg with a vortex fluid device, a high speed machine that converts unfolded proteins into folded proteins.

Their results, published in ChemBioChem, show that the team was able to refold proteins thousands of times faster than previous methods. In theory, the device has far greater application than resetting eggs: it could do everything from revolutionize the manufacturing of cancer treatments to overhaul the industrial production of cheese.

And more…

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015

He let bees sting his dick?

i think he actually encouraged them.

>He let bees sting his dick?

I’m surprised that the shaft was the most sensitive part. I wonder how thorough he was.

furious said:

• He let bees sting his dick?

Even worse, he forced them to do it…

stop pinching my lines!!!

• stop pinching my lines!!!

I’ll try…

Bullet Ant stings don’t sound like much fun but some people allow themselves to be stung repeatedly..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvIFO9srUw

There seems to be a reduced incidence of autoimmune diseases like arthritis among apiarists, and the most likely cause seems to be the increased apitoxin envenomation due to the increased number of bee stings. More research needs to be done to confirm that, but there’s already a thriving market in bee stings: people pay to be stung in the belief that it’s doing them some good. I don’t know whether the penis is selected as a convenient place for the stings, though.

btm said:

There seems to be a reduced incidence of autoimmune diseases like arthritis among apiarists, and the most likely cause seems to be the increased apitoxin envenomation due to the increased number of bee stings. More research needs to be done to confirm that, but there’s already a thriving market in bee stings: people pay to be stung in the belief that it’s doing them some good. I don’t know whether the penis is selected as a convenient place for the stings, though.

Interesting

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Also last year…

A Japanese scientist won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/18/national/huh-kissing-nothing-sneeze-osaka-doctors-allergy-relief-study-bags-ig-nobel-award/#.V-C-aBd9EaA

The groups had their skin tested for their reactions to Japanese cedar pollen, dust mites and histamine. After kissing for 30 minutes while listening to “soft music,” such as Celine Dion’s love ballad “My Heart Will Go On,” the patients had their skin tested again for allergic reactions.

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Inhuman

btm said:

There seems to be a reduced incidence of autoimmune diseases like arthritis among apiarists, and the most likely cause seems to be the increased apitoxin envenomation due to the increased number of bee stings. More research needs to be done to confirm that, but there’s already a thriving market in bee stings: people pay to be stung in the belief that it’s doing them some good. I don’t know whether the penis is selected as a convenient place for the stings, though.

Ancedote alert but their kids seem to be highly allergic – I’ve got two apiarists whose kids need immunotherapy for bee stings.

You can also do the same with snake venom apparently.

Ian said:

..Moulay Ismail the bloodthirsty, born in 1672 and dead at the age of 55, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer studied whether it would be physically possible for a man to sire 600 sons as the fable alleges.

Surely that’s a 2 second calc:

600 hundred sons over about 40 years, assume an equal number of daughters, that’s 30 fertilisations a year, easy.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

..Moulay Ismail the bloodthirsty, born in 1672 and dead at the age of 55, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer studied whether it would be physically possible for a man to sire 600 sons as the fable alleges.

Surely that’s a 2 second calc:

600 hundred sons over about 40 years, assume an equal number of daughters, that’s 30 fertilisations a year, easy.

There’d be a few variables to consider.

“Fertilisations” are not the point. It would be live births.

Ian said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

..Moulay Ismail the bloodthirsty, born in 1672 and dead at the age of 55, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer studied whether it would be physically possible for a man to sire 600 sons as the fable alleges.

Surely that’s a 2 second calc:

600 hundred sons over about 40 years, assume an equal number of daughters, that’s 30 fertilisations a year, easy.

There’d be a few variables to consider.

“Fertilisations” are not the point. It would be live births.

OK, say one a week, still easy.

I mean this guy was once a knight wasn’t he?

OK, say one a week, still easy.

I mean this guy was once a knight wasn’t he?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Ibn_Sharif

He didn’t get reproducing until he was 30 odd, I think..

There’d be shaggers back to take into account.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Surely that’s a 2 second calc:

600 hundred sons over about 40 years, assume an equal number of daughters, that’s 30 fertilisations a year, easy.

There’d be a few variables to consider.

“Fertilisations” are not the point. It would be live births.

OK, say one a week, still easy.

I mean this guy was once a knight wasn’t he?

Once a King always a King, but once a night’s enough?

furious said:

• He let bees sting his dick?

Even worse, he forced them to do it…

stupid man