Sex as a cure for nasal congestion, flying rhinoceroses, and cat-human communication: winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel prizes

On the sexual decongestant article, its important that “The data were only obtained if both individuals experienced sexual orgasm”, but I’m skeptical of any study in which the participants are self-measuring – the participants measured their own breathing changes which makes the chances of biased data pretty high.

I wanted to know if suspending a black rhino by their feet hurt them, but it turns out it makes little difference compared to laying them on their side. Giving the hard-hitting conclusion of “The biological importance in these animals of numerically small increments in PaO2 and decrements in PaCO2 with suspension by the feet is unknown.”

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