The Shnobel Prize was given for the study of breathing through the anus
In the USA, the Nobel Prize was awarded for discoveries that make “first laugh, and then think.”
The ceremony was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the night of September 13 – the first time in four years that it was held online due to restrictions related to COVID-19. Prizes were awarded to the winners in ten fields of science by real Nobel laureates.
In the field of physiology, Japanese scientists won, who found out that mammals can breathe through the anus. The research was conducted during the acute period of the COVID-19 pandemic, when hospitals were experiencing a shortage of ventilators. Experiments on mice, rats and pigs have shown that oxygen is absorbed into the blood if it is pumped through the rectum. Now scientists are conducting tests on human volunteers.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the famous American psychologist Burress Skinner, who died more than thirty years ago. The jury noted his project on the use of live pigeons inside rockets to guide them to the target. Skinner himself called this idea “crazy.”
An American scientist received a prize in the field of physics for a comprehensive study of the swimming abilities of a dead trout. Also, a team of doctors from Switzerland, Germany and Belgium received the award – for proving that “dummy” drugs with painful side effects affect patients better than those that do not cause pain.
The laureates received a ten trillion Zimbabwean dollar bill issued in 2008 (the national currency was denominated ten billion times that year) and a transparent container that cannot be opened.
