Leaders such as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan have used covid-19 to teach their citizens about life and death Acoustics, for getting an alligator to bellow in a chamber of helium enriched air6 Physics, for showing what happens to an earthworm vibrated at high frequency7 Management, to Chinese hitmen who mismanaged an assassination plot and went to jail The intended victim survived8 Entomology, for discovering that many entomologists are afraid of spiders, which are not insects9 Materials science, for demonstrating that frozen faeces do not make good knives10 In the US, a specially edited recording of the Ig Nobel ceremony will be broadcast on National Public Radio’s Science Friday programme on 27 November
Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and other leaders win Ig Nobel awards for teaching people about life and death