You can relieve an itch by scratching the other side of your body
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unex — 6 years ago(June 22, 2019 05:25 PM)
While looking in a mirror. This is according to Ig Nobel Prize winning research. I tried it out and maybe it worked for a little bit but the itch returned soon after. I need to try it some more. The study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873464/
Some Ig Nobel work seems more interesting than the award might suggest.
Biology: Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez, José Iriarte-Díaz, for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked.
Psychology – Presented jointly to Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else – even a woman in a gorilla suit.
Chemistry: Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston, and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss, for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg.