is not a great one
I'm just curious
I don't know if you guys are following Volkswagen cars. Didn't it happen to some scandal last year? . .
Volkswagen is suspected of fraud in displacement, and emissions exceed the standard 40 times
Just yesterday,Volkswagen won the award for this matter!
This award is a prize called "Ig Nobel Prizes (Funny Nobel Prize)" ~
They awarded Volkswagen the Nobel Prize for Funny Chemistry, the reason is that when Volkswagen is undergoing automobile testing, they can always successfully solve the problem of automobile emission pollution "through automation" (actually displacement cheating). . .
Awards ceremony
(Volkswagen did not receive the award...)
If you think this award is funny enough, you will feel that you have entered a wonderful world when you see the winners below~
First talk about an award called "Reproductive Award". This year's Reproductive Award winner is Emerd Shafik, who has passed away.
His reason for winning is that he studied how wearing polyester, pure cotton or wool pants will affect the sex life of mice. . . .
Wikipedia About Emerd Shafik shows that he is an Egyptian sexologist
(I really didn’t expect that there are still people who care about the sex life of mice...)
not only people care about the life of mice, but also people care about the life of goat !
There is a young man named Tom Twights who studies goat life and won the Funny Nobel Prize in Biology ~
His way of studying goat habits is a bit special, or a bit crazy.
Because he specially found an expert to create a set of lamb leg prosthetics for himself, he put on the prosthetics to live with the goat. . .
Tom Tweets and goats
also eat grass with the sheep. . .
(Please ask for the psychological shadow area of the sheep with a confused face...)
What's important is that he has lived with the sheep like this for 3 years. . .
There was another Chinese who won this award, and it can no longer be described as crazy. His discovery was simply perverted!
Dr. Zhang Libiao from the Guangdong Insect Research Institute was watching TV. While was accidentally discovered that had won the award. The one who went to receive the award was his British collaborator ~
His reason for winning was that he discovered that "female short-nose fruit bat will be male KJ!!!"
Fruit bat
may have bad friends who think these are just jokes of pranks. In fact, it is not. This funny physics award has a complete evaluation system and has a "long history". . .
Things start with an American named Mark Abrahams~
He founded a tech-funny magazine called "The Annals of Incredible Research", and since 1991, the magazine began to award prizes to seemingly weird academic research, which was later called "Funny Nobel Prize ".
Magazine Cover
This award was just a joke at first, and everyone just laughed it off after watching it. However, many people became more and more interested in these things, and the style began to be wrong. . .
This award has begun to remain stable once a year, and in order to overcome the news of the real Nobel Prize, they chose to hold a prize ceremony a week before the Nobel Prize was awarded.
award presentation location is Harvard University Sanders Theater. Winners need to pay out of their own pocket to receive the award~
Sanders Theater
and this matter is favored by some real Nobel Prize winners. These scientists who are not afraid of big troubles come over to be judges and award presenters. . .
In addition to these funny real Nobel Prize winners, there are also some journalists and elites from various fields to form a jury to judge the funny Nobel Prize.
At the same time, according to tradition, they will randomly pull a passerby to be judges every year~
The initial application for nomination was to mail the physical materials directly. Later, in order to facilitate everyone's nomination, they opened a website, and you can send them an email to apply for nomination. . .
Website screenshot
(they receive nearly 9,000 nominations every year)
They also invented a way of playing, which is to encourage audiences to throw paper planes on the stage during the award ceremony.
A room full of paper airplanes
And there is another rule that these paper airplanes can only be swept away by a person called Roy Glauber . He has never been absent for so many years, except in 2005. . .
You may not believe it. The reason for his absence is that he won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics and he ran to receive the prize. . .
is known as the sweeping monk Roy Glauber
( You are the real Nobel Prize winner! How can you be so funny?)
As more and more celebrities and academic giants join the funny Nobel Prize, the funny Nobel Prize is becoming more and more formal, and there are trophys. Here are a few trophy pictures. Please feel it for yourself~
2007 trophy
2014 trophy
(What the hell are these...)
In addition to the trophy, they also got certificates, and this certificate is still good because the certificate contains the autograph of the real Nobel Prize winner ~
Later they were able to play more, and they launched a prize in 2013, with an amount of up to 100 trillion is just Zimbabwean currency, which is about 250 cents per RMB. . .
100 trillion Zimbabwean coins
This funny Nobel Prize is probably such an activity that can make you so angry that you can burn your body inside~
So why are there so many scientists and big guys willing to get involved in such funny things?
In fact, they are doing this to satirize some bad phenomena, such as the above-mentioned public fraud.
However, these awards are not all given for satire. Some are given to those research that seem funny but are actually very rigorous. In order to let more people realize the fun of science and make more people fall in love with science~
Speaking of this, we have to mention the famous "five-second rule".
The "five-second rule" is a popular superstitious saying around the world, meaning that after the food falls on the ground, as long as you pick up the food in time and spend no more than five seconds on the ground, you can continue to eat this food~
In 2003, there was a senior American student called Clark . An American senior high school student specially designed an experiment to rigorously prove that the food lands less than five seconds, which is equal to five seconds and the bacteria that increase on the surface after more than five seconds are actually not much different.
This experiment shows that the five-second rule is wrong. If the food falls on the ground, it will be unclean, no matter how short the time it takes to be on the ground.
In 2004, Clark won the Funny Nobel Prize in Public Health for this experiment. . .
The dried fruits dropped on the floor were found to be contaminated with bacteria
This incident is a very good example. Although this experiment is not difficult and even looks a bit naive and funny, it inspired people to "verify rumors with science" ~
This funny Nobel Prize has allowed people all over the world to see a high school student using simple and scientific methods to verify that a rumor is wrong, which makes people know that science is not as complicated as imagined, but can solve some things that everyone cannot figure out.
In addition, the funny Nobel Prize is also of great significance to high-end academic aspects~
In 2000, a physicist named Andre Heim won the Funny Physics Award that year.
Andre Heim
His experiment is both technical and funny, and he studies how to make frogs float up through magnetic levitation technology. . .
Experimental Picture
(That's right, the frog really floated up!)
At that time, he was very happy to go to receive the award, and he said, "I didn't expect any award to win any award. I just wanted to do the experiment I like. I just wanted to work hard and enjoy research~ "The award of
seems to have given him great encouragement. He was more at ease in doing experiments, regardless of what others said and looked at, and devoted himself to academics.
later. . .
He won the real Nobel Prize!
Andre Heim At the Nobel Prize winning site
He discovered graphene and became the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. . .
Graphene is now called "black gold", and is the most popular new material now. It is called the "king of new materials"~
Graphene
From winning the funny Nobel Prize to winning the real Nobel Prize, it seems that it is inevitable to listen to legends.
Because the funny Nobel Prize supports a kind of "pure research" idea. Research does not need any substantial application scenarios and no stakeholder relationships, reflecting people's curious nature~
To put it bluntly, as long as it is interesting, just study it, why bother with so many! ?
According to this spirit, Mark Abrahams, the creator of the funny Nobel Prize, also published a book called "Don't be kind, please use science as you like" to tell everyone to always maintain a sense of humor and curiosity to deal with science~
The cover of the book
If you have any strange ideas in the future, just let it go. If someone laughs at you, you will say to him: "What are you laughing at? I'm doing science!"
