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Alumni and faculty have won a half-dozen of the awards, which honor top-flight academic work that\u2019s a bit odd or eccentric<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Beth Saulnier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s the Nobel Prize\u2014and then there\u2019s the Ig Nobel <\/em>Prize. Founded three decades ago as an offbeat alternative to the august award from Sweden, the prize celebrates distinguished academic forays into topics that veer toward the eccentric. Its slogan is \u201cresearch that makes people LAUGH and then THINK.\u201d And according to the latest Cornellian winner\u2014Vet Professor Robin Radcliffe\u2014that\u2019s an apt description for his team\u2019s project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you see a rhino hanging upside down, it\u2019s a little bit comical,\u201d he admits. \u201cBut it makes you wonder, and then you start to think\u2014and I’m glad that it\u2019s making people think, because our research is actually serious. Rhinos are highly endangered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait: upside-down rhinoceri?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radcliffe and three colleagues (Vet College faculty Julia Felippe, PhD \u201902, and Robin Gleed, and statistician Stephen Parry) won a 2021 Ig Nobel<\/a> for their work in Namibia on methods of relocating black rhinos<\/a>\u2014which is often vital to protect the critically endangered species from poachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Examining a rhino in mid-transport as part of a study on the technique’s health impacts. (Photo courtesy of Robin Radcliffe)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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While the rhinos had typically been moved in trucks, that\u2019s not possible when they need to go to isolated areas\u2014so local conservationists were employing helicopters, with the tranquilized animals slung upside down by their legs. And the results, while funny-looking, were encouraging: compared to truck transport, fewer of the rhinos were lost to anesthesia complications. Radcliffe and his colleagues helped explain why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost other animals, when you hang them upside down, it\u2019s usually not good for their respiration,\u201d Radcliffe says. \u201cI think the reason it\u2019s different in rhinos is they have a big head that acts as kind of a counterweight to the rest of their body; it stretches out the neck, which opens the airway. It also straightens the spine, which eliminates other concerns about having an animal upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how do you bring an inverted, flying rhino back to earth? Says Radcliffe: \u201cThe pilots are really good at making a soft landing\u2014and we run around underneath the helicopter with a big mattress to cushion them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serious research<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Stinker<\/em>, the Ig Nobel’s logo. (Image provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The logo of the Ig Nobel is a twist on Rodin\u2019s The Thinker<\/em>, depicting the famed statue toppled off its pedestal … and renamed The<\/em> Stinker<\/em>. And, yes, the projects it honors may seem a tad silly at first glace\u2014but the award is definitely not the scientific equivalent of the Razzies<\/a> (the anti-Oscars, given to the year\u2019s worst films and performances). It goes to solid, peer-reviewed studies by well-respected scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And, in fact, one person has won both the Ig and the original: Russian physicist Andre Geim took home the 2010 Nobel Prize for \u201cgroundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene\u201d\u2014a decade after winning the Ig for using magnets to levitate a frog. \u201cAnd he tells people,\u201d Radcliffe notes, \u201cthat he values each prize equally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team is super excited. We\u2019ve gotten so much exposure for rhino conservation that we wouldn\u2019t have otherwise.<\/p>Veterinarian Robin Radcliffe<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Radcliffe and his colleagues were similarly thrilled with their Ig Nobel. \u201cOur team is super excited,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten so much exposure for rhino conservation that we wouldn\u2019t have otherwise. To get this recognition is wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other Ig Nobel-winning projects by Cornellian researchers include:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ouch of bee stings<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a grad student in neurobiology and behavior, Michael Smith, PhD \u201917, won a 2015 Ig Nobel for a project in which he tested the relative pain of being stung\u2014by letting bees sting him on various parts of his body about 200 times. He now heads the Smith Bee Lab<\/a> at Auburn University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does your ponytail flow?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Physicist Raymond Goldstein, PhD \u201988<\/a>, and colleagues won a 2012 Ig Nobel for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move human hair in a ponytail. On the University of Cambridge faculty, Goldstein has numerous other honors including the 2016 Batchelor Prize, given by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, for research on active matter fluid mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In praise of procrastination<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Creating the “Theory of Structured Procrastination” won a 2011 Ig Nobel for John Perry, PhD \u201968, an emeritus professor of philosophy at Stanford. It states that if you tend to procrastinate, you can still get things done; just use a somewhat-less-important project as a way of avoiding one that\u2019s even more<\/em> important. (That way, you still accomplish something valuable.) The following year, Perry published The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The invisible gorilla<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In work\u2014detailed in a paper titled \u201cGorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events\u201d\u2014that won a 2004 Ig Nobel, Daniel Simons, PhD \u201997, demonstrated that when people pay close attention to something, it\u2019s easy to overlook other things\u2014even someone wearing a gorilla suit. Simons is a professor of psychology<\/a> at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A twist on the \u2018Peter Principle\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The familiar principle holds that job promotions ultimately result in people rising to the level of their incompetence; two Cornellians explored how bad we may be at assessing our own abilities. David Dunning, now a professor emeritus of psychology, and Justin Kruger, PhD \u201999, won a 2000 Ig Nobel for describing what has since become known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect<\/a>: a form of cognitive bias in which people who aren\u2019t particularly adept at a task overestimate their ability, while those who are<\/em> good at something underestimate their own skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning off the gas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you’re lactose intolerant but can still enjoy an ice cream sundae or a cold glass of milk, you may have Alan Kligerman \u201952<\/a> to thank for it. The former CALS dairy science major invented Lactaid, which takes the tummy trouble out of lactose. In 1991, he was among the first crop of Ig Nobel winners for his invention of Beano, which similarly allows the gas-free consumption of beans and other complex carbs. The Ig Nobel site lauds him as a “deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image: Transporting a critically endangered black rhino. (Photo courtesy of the Namibian Ministry of the Environment, Forestry, and Tourism<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published November 5, 2021; updated January 25, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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