# Ig Nobel Prizes 2015 - Of unboiled eggs, "huh?" and bee-stinged penises

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The Ig Nobel prizes for 2015 have been officially awarded!

[http://www.improbable.com/ig/2015/](http://www.improbable.com/ig/2015/)

Among the winners, we have the following awards:

Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for how to partially un-boil an egg:

[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.201402427/abstract](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.201402427/abstract)

Ig Nobel Prize in Literature, for discovering that the word “huh?” (or its equivalent) appears to exist in every human language:

> **[Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent...](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273)**
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> A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said– is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring...

Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology and Entomology, for finding out which body locations are more and less painful when stung by a bee:

> **[Honey bee sting pain index by body location](https://peerj.com/articles/338/)**
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> The Schmidt Sting Pain Index rates the painfulness of 78 Hymenoptera species, using the honey bee as a reference point. However, the question of how sting painfulness varies depending on body location remains unanswered. This study rated the...

And, yes, for the latter study, the author allowed himself to be stung by bees in many different parts of the body, three times in each for the sake of data collection. And, yes, one of the parts he allowed himself to be stung in was the penis.

To this I can only say **_AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHGHLGHGLHGLGLARGH_whimper** \*\*.

JoseB