Sword Swallowing and its Side Effects - Minimovies: Ig Nobel Prizes (Ep. 6/6)

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Ig Nobel Prizes
First Laugh, Then Think!

Episode 6: Sword swallowing and its side effects

What could be the side effects of swallowing a sword? That simple question led to the first full-size research among professional sword swallowers all over the world. Dan Meyer, President of the Sword Swallowers Association International and Brian Witcombe, radiologist, won the 2007 Medicine price.

Ig Nobel Prizes are the not-so-well-known alternative of the famous Nobel Prizes. Each year since 1989, ten scientists receive prizes for "research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK". Watch six scientists and their studies about the most important subjects of our daily life: having sex, food, money, death, and having sex again.

Director

Mr. Bahram Sadeghi (1967, Iran) works since 1998 as a director and host for public TV stations in The Netherlands. In addition he is a freelance writer for various national newspapers and weeklies. Mr Sadeghi has no hobbies.

Camera & Sound: Bahram Sadeghi
Editor: Dikla Zeidler, Sander Cijsouw

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Science & Technology

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• Brian Witcombe
• Sword Swallowers

[jackmcmorrow]

After this movie, maybe the study wasn't so stupid, anyway... Maybe we should make the same with fire blowers...

[Phenomanonn]

Sword swallowing is an amazing art form or form of entertainment. But personally I think it is incredibly stupid to have a stranger pull the sword out.

[sk8erboi192]

the thing is if you do peirce urself then u will panic and pull it out as fast as you can and just slit everything as u rip it out also check out thesonofmagic

[nameisyonyonson]

I wish all the interviews ended like tumbling toast, with the director laughing in the winner's face