You may have heard of the Nobel Prize, but have you heard of the Funny Nobel Prize? This is not funny, but there really is this selection. Of course, it is not awarded to cross talk actors and comedy stars. It is to recognize scientists who have made unusual or trivial achievements in the field of scientific research. The purpose is to "make people laugh first, then make people think".
The Funny Nobel Prize is was launched in 1991 by the American satirical science magazine "Research Annual", which happened a few days before the announcement of the real Nobel Prize. The awards were presented by the real Nobel Prize winners at the anarchist ceremony of Harvard University , and many winners took the stage personally to receive the awards. In fact, since the selection of many Nobel Prize winners in recent years is quite controversial, people pay more attention to the Ig Nobel Prize than the real Nobel Prize.
Because the Ignob is both entertaining and practical, the scientific research achievements of the Ignob are impressive every year. Below I will share four of my favorite Nobel Prizes this year.
1 Physics Prize: Why pedestrians don’t collide... and why they collide.
They conducted an experiment in which some pedestrians were asked to walk while using their mobile phones while others did not use their mobile phones to see if distraction would interfere with their predictions and actions on neighbors. The ability to react. Finally, they concluded that although distraction does slow down walking speed, both distracted pedestrians and non-distracted pedestrians can hardly avoid collisions when navigating. These results mean that avoidance is usually a cooperative process, and mutual expectations between pedestrians help to form patterns effectively.
2 Ecological Award: Forensic Application of Chewing Gum
If you have stepped on or accidentally touched a piece of used chewing gum,You may feel disgusted-this is for good reason. Our mouths contain many different types of bacteria, and you never know where other people’s mouths are. Researchers collected 10 chewy samples from France, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Singapore, frozen them, and then ground them into powder for analysis.
They are particularly interested in how bacteria change over time. When chewing gum first stuck to the sidewalk, it mainly contained oral bacteria, but over time, it was replaced by bacteria in the environment. They chewed 13 gum samples, glued them to the outdoor sidewalk, and monitored them for 12 weeks.
3 The most unexpected peace award: the beard is to protect people's faces.
The researchers wrote in the paper: Because beard is one of the most bisexual characteristics of human beings, it is usually regarded as a sign of masculinity and social dominance, so some people think that human beards play in male competitions. It worked. We hypothesize that when human males fight by absorbing and dispersing the energy of bludgeoning, the beard can protect the skin and bones of the face.
To verify this, they used a human bone tissue model, covering it on sheepskins of different thicknesses, and dropping 20 samples of different weights from different heights on it.
The results prove that hairy skin does absorb more impact.
4 Medical award: X orgasm is an effective nasal congestion
Researchers used a device on each of 18 heterosexual couples in . The test results show that: After reaching the climax,Nasal breathing has been significantly improved to the same extent as after using nasal decongestants for up to 60 minutes.
X The nasal breathing returned to the baseline level 3 hours after the intercourse, and continued to improve for a longer time after using the nasal decongestant. However, the mechanism of sex clear nose is still unclear.
Isn’t that interesting? In the 10 years since the Igno Prize was launched, there have been some very interesting and impressive scientific achievements every year. For example, Sir Andre Heim won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his use of magnetic levitation of frogs. In 2001, University of Massachusetts 's Dr. David Schmidt studied why the shower curtain rolls inward and won the prize in physics. The psychology prize in 2005 was awarded to one of Japan’s The research team, they trained the pigeons to distinguish between Picasso and Monet's paintings.
There are many scientists who satirize the Ignobel Prize as being funny. They think that such an award setting goes against the seriousness of science and is not conducive to protecting the reputation of scientists. The research of the Igno Prize is based on the trivial things in life, which is "trivial research". But many important discoveries are derived from this trivial research.
For example, Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation after seeing an apple fall from a tree. Two French mathematicians discovered probability theory in order to study how to win the dice roll.
When the new coronary pneumonia in first became popular,You may have heard of hydrochloroquine, a medicine for malaria . But what you don’t necessarily know is that a 2006 study showed that a malaria mosquito (Anopheles gambiae) was also attracted by the smell of Limburg cheese and the smell of human feet, so it won the Funny Nobel Prize in biology. . As a direct result of these discoveries, traps using this cheese as bait have been placed in strategic locations in certain areas of Africa to combat the malaria epidemic.
Although the Ig Nobel Prize is an implicit criticism of trivial research, history shows that trivial research can sometimes lead to important breakthroughs.
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