Stella Award(English: The TRUE Stella Awards) - a prize awarded annually for the most ridiculous judicial decision in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who spilled coffee on herself at a McDonald's restaurant in 1992 and subsequently sued the restaurant, where a jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages.
(Ignobel Prize, Anti-Nobel Prize, Ig Nobel Prize) - a parody of the Nobel Prize, where they are awarded for the most ridiculous and useless research. Ten Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded in early October, that is, at the time when the winners of the real Nobel Prize are named, and the actual Nobel laureates present it to the applicants, and the award ceremony takes place at Harvard and is broadcast on American television and radio in several languages. The prize was founded by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine Annals of Incredible Research in 1991.
Darwin Award("Darwin Awards") - a virtual prize awarded annually to individuals who have died or lost in the most stupid way reproductive function and, as a result, deprived themselves of the opportunity to contribute to the gene pool of humanity, thereby improving it. A prerequisite for receiving the prize is the complete absence of direct descendants.
(English Golden Raspberry) is an anti-award created in 1981 by the American John Wilson, recognizing the worst acting, script, director, film song and film of the year. By tradition, the Golden Raspberry nominees are announced the day before the announcement of the Oscar nominees, and the laureates the day before the Oscar laureates. The prize is a plastic raspberry covered in gold spray paint, valued at $5.
« Silver galosh" - an award established by the radio "Silver Rain" is awarded "for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business." Established in 1996, the author of the idea of the award was Pavel Vashchekin, the ceremony takes place annually.
Anti-premium " Glass bolt“was established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and is awarded for stupid or harmful decisions of Moscow officials involved in the “development” of the city. The laureates are awarded the “Glass Bolt” figurine - a symbol of narrow-mindedness and crookedness. Since 2012, the award has been declared all-Russian
Chicken Chicken Award(eng. Chicken Little Award, named after the main character of the cartoon Walt Disney's Chicken Little), full name Chicken Little Award for exaggerated predictions of imminent destruction environment(English: The "Chicken Little" Award for Exaggerated Predictions About the Impending Destruction of Our Environment) is a comic award established by the Center for National Concern at the same time as the Julian Simon Award, awarded for a sober look at the same problems.
Lantern Rouge(French: Lanterne rouge; red lantern) - cyclist who took last place in the overall standings of the Tour de France; also the name of the prize awarded to that athlete. The name comes from the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
World Stupidity Award- an award founded in 2003 to reward the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance. The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs comedy festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
Literary anti-prize "Paragraph" has been awarded since the fall of 2001 in four categories: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). For “particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature” an “Honorary Illiteracy” is awarded. The “prizewinners” are determined by a special expert council based on reader opinions sent to the editorial office of the Knizhnoe Obozrenie newspaper.
Alas, not all people are capable of any outstanding deeds or at least accomplishments worthy. However, some people do something so ridiculous, bad and funny that it cannot escape the attention of the public.
World Stupidity Award
Awarded for the most outstanding achievements in the field of ignorance and stupidity. The wording is vague, and considering that this award is sponsored by a comedy festival, it is unlikely that they are choosing something really stupid. But it's funny, for sure.
Anti-prize "Paragraph"
This prize is awarded to publishing houses that have published the most failed books. There are several categories - proofreading, editing, translation and everything in general. Nominees are selected from anonymous and not-so-reader opinions sent to the committee.
Chicken Chicken Award
Awarded for exaggeratedly inadequate forecasts regarding the inevitable destruction of the environment. That is, those studies in which the author shouts loudest that “We are all going to die!” and tries to give some other supposedly reasonable arguments.
"Glass Bolt"
It is awarded to officials who make absolutely unsuccessful decisions regarding urban planning and city development. Initially, the award was exclusively Moscow, but very soon it became clear that candidates for it could be found in any city.
"Silver Galosh"
Dubious achievements in the field of show business. What is typical is that the nominees regularly even come to the awards. Still, black PR in show business is still PR. If they talk about you, it means they at least noticed you.
golden raspberry
In fact, it’s the antipode of the Oscars. It is also held the day before, with both the announcement of the nominees and the announcement of the winners. And the nominations are not much different from the Oscars - direction, film, song, acting, and so on. The prize is a plastic raspberry covered in “golden” red.
Stella Award
It was named after the lady who was able to sue the McDonald's chain for several million dollars in compensation for spilling coffee in their establishment. This award is given for similar ridiculous and absurd court decisions. And in the USA there are plenty of them.
Darwin Award
Awarded for the most absurd and ridiculous deaths, provided there are no direct descendants. They say that the nominee removes his genes of idiocy from the human population, and therefore is worthy of the award. To be clear, we are not talking about accidents or outright suicides. All the nominees are firmly convinced of what they did and did not intend to end their lives. But alas.
Ig Nobel Prize
Not all Scientific research equally useful. Some scientists seriously study complete nonsense. It is to them that this prize is awarded. On the other hand, some of the nominees for this award do do significant work that allows us to understand our world a little better. Still, not everyone can invent cures for cancer - someone can study the quack of ducks and the gait of goats.
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We are accustomed to prizes being awarded for certain achievements and merits. But unfortunately, the examples that individuals or organizations set are not only positive, but also negative.
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And some part of society also considers it necessary to celebrate some of the most striking of such negative examples, not so that others will repeat them, of course, but vice versa. This post contains a list of the most famous “anti-prizes”, i.e. prizes that are awarded for dubious, stupid and harmful actions and “achievements”.
Darwin Award
Perhaps the most indisputable anti-premium. After all, it is awarded to those who, due to their own stupidity, died or lost the opportunity to have offspring and thereby removed their genes from the gene pool of humanity. The name of the award hints at the principle natural selection, formulated by Darwin - for the development of a species, the best must survive, and the worst, including the stupidest, must die. For more than a dozen years, the prize has been awarded (mostly posthumously) to many people who have passed away in the most ridiculous ways. For example, in 1996 the prize winner was Krzysztof Azninski, 30 years old, from Poland. Together with friends, Krzysztof celebrated his imminent wedding. When one of the guests suggested that everyone strip naked and “go wild for the last time,” everyone immediately agreed. At first, the guys ran after each other with frozen turnips in their hands and tried to hit their partner as hard as possible. However, then someone came across a chainsaw. Krzysztof's future best man grabbed her and declared that he would show her what real men could do. Before the friends had time to look back, he turned on the saw and cut off his foot. This is where Krzysztof’s finest hour came. With a cry “Just think - a leg, this is nonsense! Is it so weak? he cut off his own head in the blink of an eye. “It’s all strange,” one of Krzysztof’s friends later recalled. “As a child, he loved to wear his underwear.” older sister. And how he died a real man».
Ig Nobel Prize
The most famous of the awards for dubious scientific achievements. It's easy to guess from the title that it parodies the Nobel Prize. The prize has been awarded since 1991 and many not only British scientists, but also scientists from other countries have become its laureates. Interestingly, the prize is officially awarded at Harvard, the prize is presented by real Nobel laureates, and the ceremony is broadcast on American television. For example, one of the prizes in the field of probability theory was awarded by the organizing committee of the Ig Nobel Prize to a team from the Scottish Agricultural College. They found that “the longer a cow lies down, the more likely it is that she will get up soon.” There is no inverse relationship - “it is impossible to easily predict when a standing cow will lie down again.” In the experiments, scientists were not content with a visual assessment; sensors were attached to the cow's legs, recording the time spent by the cows in a lying and standing position.
Stella Award
An award given to the dumbest court decisions or lawsuits in the United States. The award was named after Stella Liebeck, who, after buying hot coffee at McDonald's, spilled it on herself and then filed a lawsuit against the company because she was not warned that the coffee was hot and could get burned. Then the court made a decision obliging the company to pay almost $3 million in compensation for damage caused. Since American citizens love to litigate, and the US judicial system is full of miracles, there are plenty of nominations for the award. Among the people awarded the Stella Prize, for example, are the following. A certain lady was driving in her car along a snowy road when a pedestrian suddenly ran out onto the road. Not having time to stop the car in time, the woman hit the poor guy, who later died before her eyes. A few days later, the lady sued the widow of the pedestrian she hit, demanding compensation for moral damages. She stated that her peace of mind had suffered an irreparable blow as she watched the death throes of the deceased, and that for this suffering she was entitled to compensation from the widow. Another American woman went to the store and decided to buy a coffee maker. Four coffee makers in boxes stood on a shelf, one on top of the other in a column. The woman pulled out the lowest box. Of course, the top three boxes immediately fell on her. She sued the store for failing to warn her that if she removed the bottom box, the top boxes could fall on her and cause her physical harm.
"Golden Raspberry"
A popular “anti-award” in the cinema industry. It traditionally marks the most dubious achievements in the field of cinematography over the past year. This award is a parody of the Oscars and is awarded in 11 categories. Every ten years, “outstanding” films of the decade are awarded, and in 2005, the 25th anniversary award ceremony took place, during which the worst films and actors for the entire existence of the “anti-award” were highlighted. Until 2008, the record for the number of collected raspberries was held by the films “Battlefield: Earth” and “Show Girls” - each of them was “lucky” to grab 7 awards. In 2008, the film “I Know Who Killed Me” broke the record - 8 awards out of 9 nominations. The unsurpassed actor in terms of the number of awards received to date is Sylvester Stallone, who has collected 10 awards over his long creative life.
"Silver Galosh"
Russian “anti-prize”, established in 1996 by the radio “Silver Rain”. It is awarded annually for the most dubious achievements in the field of show business. Since its inception, many famous artists, officials and politicians have become laureates of the award.
"Paragraph"
Another “anti-prize”, which since 2001 has been awarded for the most dubious “achievements” in the field of book printing. It is awarded in four main categories and one additional: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for “particularly cynical crimes against Russian literature”, in As a bonus prize, an “Honorary Certificate” is awarded. The “laureates” are determined by a special expert council based on reader opinions sent to the editorial office of the Knizhnoe Obozrenie newspaper.
Runet Anti-Premium
Russian independent award for alternative achievements in the field of Runet - both positive and dubious - “as opposed to” the Runet Prize. The Runet Anti-Prize is awarded to both Internet projects and individuals who, for some reason, were bypassed by official competitions, awards and bonuses.
Glass Bolt Award
Established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of developing the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.
Latern Rouge
The award is given to the cyclist who finishes last in the Tour de France. Translated as “Red Lantern”, this award is named after the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.
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World Stupidity Award- a prize that, from 2008 to 2008, was awarded “for the most outstanding achievements in the field of stupidity and ignorance.” The award was sponsored by the Just for Laughs comedy festival. The 2005 ceremony was held on July 22 in Montreal.
The last three ceremonies were hosted by American comedian Lewis Black.
2006 Laureates
In 2006, categories awarded included:
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(If anyone is interested in details real destiny Radomir, Magdalena, Cathars and Templars, please look at the Supplements after the chapters of Isidora or a separate (but still in preparation) book “Children of the Sun”, when it will be posted on the website www.levashov.info for free copying).I stood completely shocked, as was almost always the case after another story from Sever...
Was that tiny, newly born boy really the famous Jacques de Molay?! How many different wonderful legends I have heard about this mysterious man!.. How many miracles were associated with his life in the stories I once loved!
(Unfortunately, the wonderful legends about this mysterious man have not survived to this day... He, like Radomir, was made a weak, cowardly and spineless master who “failed” to save his great Order...)
– Can you tell us a little more about him, Sever? Was he such a powerful prophet and miracle worker as my father once told me?..
Smiling at my impatience, Sever nodded affirmatively.
– Yes, I’ll tell you about him, Isidora... I knew him for many years. And I spoke to him many times. I loved this man very much... And I missed him very much.
I didn’t ask why he didn’t help him during the execution? This made no sense, since I already knew his answer.
– What are you doing?! Did you talk to him?!. Please, you will tell me about this, Sever?! – I exclaimed.
I know, I looked like a child with my delight... But it didn’t matter. Sever understood how important his story was for me and patiently helped me.
“But I would like to first find out what happened to his mother and the Cathars.” I know that they died, but I would like to see it with my own eyes... Please help me, North.
And again reality disappeared, returning me to Montsegur, where wonderful brave people lived their last hours - students and followers of Magdalene...
Cathars.
Esclarmonde lay quietly on the bed. Her eyes were closed, it seemed that she was sleeping, exhausted by losses... But I felt that this was just protection. She just wanted to be left alone with her sadness... Her heart suffered endlessly. The body refused to obey... Just a few moments ago, her hands were holding her newborn son... They were hugging her husband... Now they went into the unknown. And no one could say with certainty whether they would be able to escape the hatred of the “hunters” who had infested the foot of Montsegur. And the entire valley, as far as the eye could see... The fortress was the last stronghold of Qatar, after it there was nothing left. They suffered complete defeat... Exhausted by hunger and winter cold, they were helpless against the stone “rain” of catapults that rained down on Montsegur from morning to night.
Ig Nobel Prize
For achievements that make you laugh and then think
The awards are presented by real Nobel Prize winners, only with fake noses and makeup, and the recipients' speaking time is limited by Little Miss Sweetie Poo, who after 60 seconds says "Please stop, I'm bored!"
Since 1991, at the behest of founder Mark Abrahams and the scientific publication Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded along with the announcement of Nobel Prize laureates. Rarely does an anti-Nobel award express criticism; more often, it draws attention to work with a funny worded topic or a funny subject of research. For example, the research of two Austrian researchers who used mathematical methods to determine whether Sultan Ismail the Bloodthirsty of Morocco may have fathered 888 children between 1697 and 1727.
The medal parodies the Nobel Prize
Russian citizens received Ig Nobel several times. For example, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chemist and crystallographer Yuri Struchkov received a literature prize for publishing 948 scientific works, that is, one scientific article every 4 days. In 2012, our compatriots received three Ig Nobels. The owner of the Russian company SKN, Igor Petrov, received the Peace Prize for the synthesis of nanodiamonds from old ammunition; a prize in physics (“for research on how to carry coffee correctly so as not to spill it”) was awarded to former citizen of the Russian Federation, scientist Ruslan Krechetnikov (together with the American Hans Mayer); The prize in the field of psychology went to Tulio Guadelupe from the Institute of Psycholinguistics of the city of Nijmegen, representing Russia and Peru - for treatise"From the left angle, the Eiffel Tower appears shorter." In 2000, Andrei Geim, a native of the USSR, received the Ig Nobel Prize for his experiment with diamagnetic levitation (making a frog fly), and ten years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the practical production of graphene.
"Golden Raspberry"
For dubious achievements in the field of cinema
Sprawling and golden, just like the Oscars
The Golden Raspberry Awards were invented in 1981 by publicist John Wilson, author of a guide to the worst films. The name comes from the English slang expression (to) blow raspberry (tongue) - to snort in mockery by blowing into your protruding tongue. While the Oscars are drowning in tolerance and predictability, members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation, as they say, keep filmmakers in good shape. The 36th awards ceremony took place on February 27 on Broadway - as always, the day before the Oscars. As last year, nine failed nominations were diluted by the berry of mercy: the “redeeming raspberry” became an indulgence for the one who was able to bring his career out of a steep dive. Among the contenders were Night Shyamalan (for the film “The Visit”), Elizabeth Banks (for “Pitch Perfect 2”), Will Smith (role in “The Protector”). Sylvester Stallone received it for “Creed” (by the way, he was named the worst actor of the 20th century when summing up the film results of the century). Other favorites for the 36th Golden Raspberry ceremony included Jupiter Ascending and The Fantastic Four, but in the end, Fifty Shades of Gray took almost all the statuettes.
Runet Anti-Premium
For the brightest, unformatted and dubious projects of the Russian Internet
The informal anti-award was loved by users much more than its source - the Runet Prize, which, for example, did not award Pavel Durov for VKontakte, which is why he launched a DDoS attack on the site with a popular vote. The Runet Anti-Prize remains in the memory at least thanks to the nominations - risky, witty and surprisingly accurately showing key events. For example, in 2014, Lenta.ru won in the “Not a Runet Cake” category, Meduza debuted in the “Bombanulo!” section, and “Lentach” became a leader in the “BDSMM and other PR poses” category. Sites that won the anti-award regularly found themselves under the yoke of Roskomnadzor: for example, “Lurkomorye” (winner of 2014 in the “Underground” category) and RuTracker.org (nominee “Mom, I downloaded again in my sleep”), it is hardly possible in the same category note the social network “VKontakte”, where there is less and less pirated content, sidelong glances periodically catch the Kermlin Russia account (winner of the “Kitten named.GOV” nomination) and the public “The Decaying West” (“Fun of the Year”). The award did not survive until 2016.
Pigasus Award
For his contribution to the activities of pseudoscience and paranormal research
The Pigasus Award was created by James Randi, an illusionist, scientific skeptic and fighter against paranormal scammers. Back in the 1970s, Randy was involved with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of Paranormal Activity. The Pigasus Award is another achievement of Randy's in the fight against sorcerers and psychics. The name Pigasus itself is a derivative of “Pegasus” and pig, referring to the expression “when pigs fly” (“when the crayfish whistles on the mountain”). The ceremony takes place on April 1, and the prize is a flying pig on a stand, “which the winner takes by telekinesis.” The award has five categories in total: the scientist who did the biggest stupid thing (in 2012 - Stanislaw Burzynski for selling an expensive cancer drug); organizations - for supporting parapsychological research (in the same year - Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center for supporting the healing laying on of hands on the sick - “Therapeutic Touch”); The media - for asserting paranormal phenomena as facts; to the performer who fooled greatest number of people; and finally, an award “for the most desperate refusal to face reality.”
Bent Spoon Award
Australian Paranormal Folly Award
Bent spoon given to Australian charlatans
A special anti-award from the Australian Skeptics Society, named after Uri Geller, who allegedly bent spoons through telekinesis. The Bent Spoon Award was won in 2013 by the Australian Chiropractors Association, which refused to insure its members, and in 2014 by Dr Larry R Marshall, president of the government's scientific body CSIRO, for his support of dowsing. The latest Bent Spoon winner is Australian celebrity chef and TV presenter Pete Evans, who was nominated for his praise of the Paleo Diet, a diet based on the supposed ancient diet of people during the Paleolithic.
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
For the strangest, funniest and most ridiculous book title
The definitive guide to farting on a date won an award in 2014, but it's not just the title that's outstanding - the book's theme deserves its own prize.
The idea for the prize came from The Bookseller magazine and publishers Diagram Group, who wanted to draw attention to the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, every year, with rare exceptions, a prize is awarded - a bottle of champagne or Bordeaux - to active readers who sent the strangest, funniest or most ridiculous title of a book that was published during the past year. The first nominee for the award was the non-fiction “Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Naked Mice” (1978); Then the following books earned public recognition: “Madame as an Entrepreneur: Domestic Prostitution and Career Management” (1979), “Significant Moments in the History of Concrete” (1994), “The Joy of Sex. Pocket edition" (1997), "Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes" (2009), "Managing a dental clinic like Genghis Khan" (2010) and many others. The most recent winner was Margaret Meps Schulte's Strangers Have the Best Candy (2015).
Bad Sex in Fiction Award
For Worst Erotic Scene in Literature
The winning scene features a "giggling snowball of total copulation" and a "sexually violent rollercoaster loop"
Until last year, the BSIFA prize was more of a local meme among readers of the Literary Review magazine, but in 2015, news of the award spread throughout the media when it was awarded to The Smiths singer Stephen Morrissey for his book The Lost List. The author described the plot of his book this way: “A team of American runners from the 70s accidentally kills another athlete, thus releasing a demon from him. This demon is the devil in the flesh, and every killer will die. But all this ends up being a ritual of exile, so the death at the very beginning of the book is just an illusion.” The author himself received a prize in the form of naked woman he didn’t come to the open book and didn’t comment on the situation.
"Paragraph"
Prize from the newspaper "Book Review" for dubious achievements in the field of book publishing
Not every anti-award has the budget for such a commemorative sculpture
It consists of a twice-broken pen in the shape of the letter Z on a stand, and is awarded in the nominations “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for “especially cynical crimes” against Russian literature" give "Honorable illiteracy". “Illiteracy” was once received by Andrei Fursenko for the education reform and by Konstantin Ernst with the formulation “as the physical embodiment of the largest rating share of television, which stupefies the common man, separating him from books and reading, from any manifestation of culture.” In addition to them, Anatoly Fomenko has “Paragraph” for “New Chronology” (2004) and Boris Akunin for the book “History Russian state. From the origins to the Mongol invasion" (2014).
Turnip Prize
Parody of the Turner Prize - for the worst works of contemporary art
Shortlisted work for 2011. Called First Class Mail by TeamGB
In response to the Turner Prize jury's controversial decisions, the Turnip Prize organizers say: "You can submit any work to us as long as it sucks." At the same time, the leitmotif of the anti-prize is the hypothesis: “We know that this sucks, but is it art?” Before the final decision, each candidate receives an assessment of his creation: “not enough effort” and “isn’t it crap?” - make it to the finals, and works with the ratings “tried too hard” and “not shit enough” are eliminated. The 2003 winner was James Timms with his work "Take a Leaf from My Chopstick" (raw chicken in leaves). In 2007, the turnip award went to Bracey Vermin with his work “Tea P”, which consisted of several soaked tea bags laid out in the shape of the letter P. This year the winner was the artist Bonksy and his work “Dismal And” - an homage to Banksy with his thematic Dismaland Park, is a piece of wood with a sad muzzle 
Winning work in the form of an ampersand.
Location London, Great Britain
Years 1999 - present
Golden Fleece Award (1975–1987)
For grant-eating and stupid research
The first prize in 1975 was received by the US National Science Foundation for spending $84,000 on a laboratory study of the phenomenon of love. Later, NSF would again be a Golden Fleece Award winner for analyzing the aggression of moonfish, one of which drank tequila and the other rum. The US Department of Defense received an award for spending $3,000 on research that showed that soldiers should use an umbrella when it rains; Ronald Reagan - for spending $15.5 million from taxpayers' pockets (the money was needed for the re-inauguration). The Golden Fleece Prize was established by the American Democratic politician William Proxmire and was awarded until 1987.
Location Washington, USA
Years 1975–1987
Doublespeak Award
For the most cunning political rhetoric
This anti-prize, established by the National Council of Teachers in English, awarded for the most ambiguous statement. The very first one went to US Air Force press attache David Opfer for calling the bombing in Southeast Asia “air support.” In 1986, the winners were NASA contractors who tried to hide the meaning of the Challenger shuttle disaster. The explosion was called an "anomaly", the bodies of the dead astronauts were called "the squad returning to Earth", and the coffins were called "crew containers". Interestingly, in England there is its own analogue of the anti-premium called. Among the champions of absurdity there are Naomi Campbell (“I love England, especially your national food - nothing tastes better than pasta”), Silvio Berlusconi (“I am truthful quite often”) and Donald Trump for recalling McCain’s captivity in Vietnam (“He not a war hero. He was a hero because he was captured. And I love people who were not captured").
Darwin Award
For idiocy. Posthumously
American Larry Walters took a balloon flight
This is one of the most cruel, famous and funny anti-prizes. Awarded annually to persons who have died or been deprived of the opportunity to have children due to stupidity. It grew out of an ancient usenet forum launched on August 7, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, biology student Wendy Northcutt created a Darwin Award website and, that same year, began compiling obituary books for “human lemmings.” For the selection, Northcutt was guided by five rules: the nominee must die or be sterilized as a result of his actions, self-harm must be as stupid as possible, the person must harm himself on his own, and be over 18 years old and mentally healthy; finally, the incident must be verified. In 2014, a posthumous prize was awarded to a young magician from Spain who tried to use his body as a conductor to light a light bulb in his hand; In 2015, the Darwin Prize was won by a South African woman who fell off a cliff while trying to take a selfie.
