iHarare.com

🚨On a lighter note: *The Ig Nobel Prize’s 33rd ceremony took place virtually last Thursday night. Each winner received a $10 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note and a trophy. The winners represented 22 countries, including five researchers from the United States, four from the United Kingdom, and three from China. Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the prestigious Nobel Prize awarded annually since 1991 to “celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology.” A Geologist won the coveted Chemistry and Geology Prize for his research into why many scientists like to lick rocks, while the Public Health Prize was awarded to urologist Seung-min Park, who invented the Stanford Toilet, a device that analyzes excrement, and recognizes users by their “analprint” – an identifier as unique as a fingerprint, apparently. American psychologists won the Psychology Prize for investigating how members of a crowd looked up if they saw other people doing so, while the Education Prize was awarded for research into how teachers’ boredom affects the boredom of students in a classroom.