Ig Nobel: Die Laughing with the Most Silly Inventions of 2016

On the evening of September 22, the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize was announced and awarded to the most interesting, funny and strange inventions, researches, such as finding "personality" for the stones, the sex of the mouse. change when wearing pants, use fake legs to live like go. This article explains the key facts and context behind ig nobel.

The 26th Ig Nobel Prize was held at Harvard University (USA). This award is organized by the US-based Funny Science Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).

Ig Nobel is the prize for mimicking the Nobel Prize, which was awarded at the beginning of the annual fall - close to the time when the Nobel Prize was officially announced - for 10 achievements "first made people laugh, then made them think". The main purpose of the prize is to create a happy atmosphere to encourage research. Many scientists have just won the Nobel Prize this year, then won the Ig Nobel Prize or vice versa.

And below are 10 Ig Nobel prizes awarded in this 2016.

Ig Nobel Reproduction: the sex of the mouse changes when it is. wearing pants.

The award was given to Ahmed Shafik, an Egyptian urologist, with a scientific study of how polyester pants affect the sex life of mice.

In 1993, Ahmed Shafik published the results of his research in European Urology. Accordingly, the mice wearing polyester pants will have less sex than those wearing cotton pants, wool pants or not wearing pants.

Ig Nobel Awareness: see the world through two-legged slots.

Two Japanese researchers - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei were awarded this prize for studies of the differences of objects when a person bends his body and observes them across the legs.

Ig Nobel Biology: using artificial legs to live with goats.

This year, the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology was awarded to the British, Thomas Thwaites and Charles Foster.

Thomas Thwaites invented a prosthetic leg to walk and live like a goat for 3 days. Even he like to graze (already cooked), begging with the goats on the Alps in Switzerland.

Charles Foster had the same idea with Thomas Thwaites. The book "Being a Beast", Being a Beast has recorded the trial experience of living like a badger in its forest.

Ig Nobel Peace: About the reception and discovery of profound crap.

This award is given to Canda and American philosophers, Gordon Pennycook, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, James Allan Cheyne, and Jonathan Fugelsang with a research entitled "On the reception and recognition of fake crap. profound".

The research team has studied in depth how people understand meaningless statements wrapped under a meaningful crust, by piecing together random words into a grammatically correct sentence structure but hearing nothing.

Ig Nobel Economics: looking for "personality" for the stones.

Three researchers Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes and Shelagh Ferguson have been awarded this prize for their research of personality for stones from a sales and marketing perspective.

Experts have been very diligent in understanding the concept of how to promote the personality of products that affect rock pieces.

Research shows that when a person comes into contact with a stone, they can create human characteristics for that stone. The conclusion is that, the concept of personality in the product must be approached in a more careful way because the stone is still affected.

Ig Nobel Chemistry: solving the problem of pollution of cars by keeping gas inside the car.

The award was awarded to German car company Volskwagen for reducing automobile emissions by stealing devices that "confine" exhaust gases inside the vehicle to deceive vehicle tests.

Ig Nobel Psychology: measuring the lie frequency of 1,000 people.

In the field of psychology, the prize was awarded to Evelyne Debey's lie research and colleague Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, Maarten De Schryver and Bruno Verschuere from Belgium, USA, Canada, Germany, and Ha. Lan. This study was conducted in 2015 and published in Acta Psychologica.

They asked 1,000 people from 6 to 77 years of age how many they lie, how they feel when lying and how good they are.

The results showed that sophisticated lie was trained from childhood, and achieved excellence in adolescence and became worse in adulthood.

Ig Nobel Physics: why dragonflies are attracted by black tombstones and why white horses attract most buffalo flies.

The award in this area was awarded to 9 scientists from 4 countries (Hungary, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) with 2 findings: why white horses attract the most buffalo flies and why dragonflies return intrigued by the black tombstone.

They said that the reflected light images are highly polarized and polarized, like the water surface that has made the dragonfly attractive.

Ig Nobel Medicine: Itching on the left, look in the mirror, scratch the right half of the body and vice versa.

German scientists have been awarded this award for their work. Accordingly, if a person has an itch on the right arm, they may look in the mirror and scratch the left arm in the same position or vice versa.

People with skin diseases can also apply this method. When itching is unbearable, look in the mirror and scratch.

Ig Nobel Literature: the autobiography of satisfaction when collecting dead flies and dead flies.

This award was given to Fredrik Sjoberg with 3 autobiographical books about the satisfaction of collecting dead flies and even live flies.