THE IG NOBEL PRIZE: 2016-2017 and 2019

Please see the IG NOBEL PRIZE (1991-1994) post of 10/23/19 for an explanation of this prize.

Partial list of IG NOBEL prize winners: 2016-2017 and 2019

2016 
Medicine - Presented to Christoph Helmchen and colleagues, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).

Psychology - Presented to Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe their answers.

2017
Economics - Presented to Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, for their experiments to see how contact with a live crocodile affects a person's willingness to gamble.

Anatomy - Presented to  James Heathcote, for his medical research study, "Why Do Old Men Have Big Ears?"

Fluid Dynamics - Presented to Jiwon Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee.

2019
Biology - Presented to Ling-Jun Kong and colleagues, for discovering that dead, magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living, magnetized cockroaches.

Engineering - Presented to Iman Farahbakhsh, for inventing a diaper-changing machine for use on human infants.