Comments on: Drunk bats and garlic-flavoured breast milk honoured at Ig Nobels

Drunk bats and garlic-flavoured breast milk honoured at Ig Nobels

chariot pulled by cassowaries — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:52:58 -0800

Drunk bats and garlic-flavoured breast milk honoured at Ig Nobels. This year's Ig Nobel prize-winning research included studies on lizard pizza preferences, bats flying under the influence, and whether babies enjoy garlicky breast milk.

By: Aardvark Cheeselog

Aardvark Cheeselog — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:06:20 -0800

Perhaps the lizard pizza results go some way to explaining the vitality of the colony of painted agamas that has grown up around my community's swimming pool. A lot of pizza gets eaten there...

By: Spike Glee

Spike Glee — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:12:18 -0800

I really liked the one on cacio e pepe, having one part of the phase diagram being mozzarella "It felt like the highest honour this work could ever receive.".

By: Dashy

Dashy — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:33:39 -0800

Cacio e pepe, previously.

By: samthemander

samthemander — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:57:46 -0800

Fantastic. Although surprising they awarded a study from 1991! You'd think there'd be more current research on garlicky breast milk.

By: demi-octopus

demi-octopus — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:23:34 -0800

That wasn't even all of them! Some more at Ars Technica.

By: clawsoon

clawsoon — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:28:57 -0800

With the bats-avoiding-alcohol story winning this year, this seems like an early favourite for next year: Chimps drinking a lager a day in ripe fruit, study finds

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:41:36 -0800

Reminds me of when we lived on a farm when I was young. The milk cow got into the wild garlic, which made her milk garlicky. Rather than let it go to waste, we just drank it. But also discovered it made amazing butter and was a great ingredient for cornbread.

By: DirtyOldTown

DirtyOldTown — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:10:17 -0800

Coupla them bats, coupla them chimps, and we're most of the way to a party.

By: The Ardship of Cambry

The Ardship of Cambry — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:34:29 -0800

Les Blank was right, garlic really is as good as ten mothers.

By: tafetta, darling!

tafetta, darling! — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:42:19 -0800

Me thinks the authors of the narcissism study perhaps wanted to be told they were smarter than they actually are rather than that their research was Ig Nobel.

By: Melismata

Melismata — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:25:00 -0800

Boobies! Heh heh heh

By: jeffburdges

jeffburdges — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:18:26 -0800

clawsoon, the lethal dose for alcohol gets interesting. A one liter bottle of vodka reaches the LD50 if you use worldwide average 62 kg body weight, of course the more vulnerable 50% does not go around drinking whole big bottles. (5 g alcohol / kg body weight) / (0.84 kg alcohol / l) = 1.2 * 0.005 l/kg = 0.006 l/kg