Why is there a funny prize in Nobel Prize in Literature?

According to foreign media reports, the annual "Ig Nobel Prize" awarding ceremony was announced at Harvard University at 6: 00 pm US time 17.

It is reported that the English name of "Ig Nobel" is "IgNobelPrizes", which is an interesting imitation of the Nobel Prize. It has been 25 years since 199 1 this year, and it has been rated as the top ten achievements of "funny at first sight, then thought-provoking". The winners and some judges are real Nobel Prize winners. Generally speaking, the winner will get 1 point. This award aims to make people "laugh first, then think".

Lide Hu, a professor of biophysics at Georgia Institute of Technology, won the physics prize for his research that "almost all mammals urinate at the same time".

According to the report, Professor Lide Hu and his team filmed the urination process of mammals including rats, goats, cows, elephants and dogs with high-speed cameras, and found through hydrodynamic modeling that the urination time of mammals weighing more than 3kg is about 2 1 second.

The research team pointed out that the urethra is actually like a siphon. The longer the urethra, the faster the drainage, indicating that the length of the urethra can adjust the urination speed. In the process of animal evolution, the urethra of large animals becomes longer, which helps to urinate quickly, thus avoiding being attacked by other animals when urinating. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lidehu said that this study has certain medical significance, because if the urination time is too long, it may be a sign of prostate cancer. The reason is that the tumor compresses the urethra and slows down the flow rate of urine. This study is also helpful for other designs, such as the design of drinking water backpacks and fire engines.

The medical prize was awarded to the director (62 years old) of a clinic in Osaka, Japan. His research proves that kissing can reduce skin allergic reactions.

Japanese media said that this is the ninth consecutive year that the Japanese won the Ig Nobel Prize. Although Muchu did not attend the award ceremony, he was honored to win the prize. He said: "Emotion can be said to be a natural healing ability of human beings. I hope we can make more use of this ability to reduce allergic reactions." He also expressed his gratitude to the award venue through video. Another Slovak team studying kissing shared the medical prize.

It is understood that Yumu is the director of an allergy clinic in Dongchuan City, Osaka Prefecture. In the experiment of winning papers, dozens of subjects with atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis were allowed to kiss their lovers or spouses for 30 minutes. The results showed that compared with before kissing, the skin allergic reaction of the subjects to mites and fir pollen was effectively suppressed.

In addition, there are many other interesting award-winning studies in this year's award-winning list.

The research team from the University of Western Australia won the chemistry prize.

According to the report, in terms of chemistry prize, the research team from the University of Western Australia won the prize because it can partially turn boiled eggs into raw eggs. In fact, its essence is the study of protein's transsexuality.

In terms of literature prize, the Dutch Institute of Psycholinguistics under the Planck Institute found, "What?" It is a common vocabulary of human beings. These researchers sampled and compared 3 1 languages of different language families and found that all languages have functions and sounds and "huh?" In English-similar to Chinese "What?" -Almost exactly the same question word.

In this year's awards, there is a brand-new award-Physiology and Entomology Award. Michael smith of Cornell University won the prize for studying where bees stung him the most. He found that if the stung part is the nostril, the whole body will react and the pain will be unbearable.

In addition, a diagnostic medicine prize was taken away by the British. The research team found that when driving through the speed bump, if there is no pain in the abdomen under vibration, it means there is no appendicitis. This method is called "driving diagnosis method" by the research team.

The report pointed out that there is also an interesting study, and the research team of the University of Chile won the biology prize. They found that if a stick was tied to the tail of a chicken or other poultry, its walking posture would become the same as that of Tyrannosaurus Rex in the movie.