The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced. Take a look at this year’s weird research.

The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, take a look at this year’s weird research

The Ig Nobel Prizes have been in existence for 25 years since their inception in 1991. It is reported that the awards it awards include: top ten awards in peace, physics, economics, anatomy, biology, fluid mechanics, nutrition, medicine, cognition, and obstetrics.

Although the Ig Nobel Prize is full of "nonsense", it is real science. Let science take off its cold appearance and integrate it with relaxation and humor, so that the warmth of science can attract more ordinary people's attention and stimulate people's interest in science. Although this award is called "Funny", it is well-deserved to be called "Nobel" - some of the "Ig Nobel Prize" winners are real Nobel Prize winners.

The research topics of the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize are all eye-catching: old people have larger ears; are cats solid or liquid? Why do some people hate cheese?

Old people do have bigger ears - have you ever noticed that old people’s ears usually look bigger? Sir Scott, a British doctor who won the "Anatomy Award", found that after the age of 30, men's ears grow about 2 mm every 10 years, and women's ears also grow with age. However, because the "initial value" of women's ears is small and their hair is long, the big ears of older men are more eye-catching.

Can a cat be in a solid state and a liquid state at the same time? Even a fat cat can completely lie down in a small box. So is the cat in a solid state or a liquid state, or has it practiced "bone shrinkage"? Researchers from many countries used fluid mechanics to analyze the state of cats and won the physics prize.

Touching a crocodile will affect people's desire to gamble - Rocklof, director of the Population Research Laboratory of the University of Queensland in Australia, and a research assistant found that before gamblers start gambling, holding a one-meter-long crocodile with its mouth sealed can It triggers excitement, causing people with gambling addiction to gamble more and lose more.

The audience of the Ig Nobel Prize has an unwritten tradition of throwing "waste paper" on the award podium. Every year, the award ceremony is filled with a sea of ??paper airplanes.

For this reason, the Ig Nobel Prize also created a position for the award ceremony - "Sweeping Monk". This sweeper, Professor Glauber, is not just a simple man. He was one of the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, and occasionally guest-presented the award when the award was awarded.

In fact, the Ig Nobel Prize has its own "complete" awarding process. Unlike the Nobel Prize winners who attend the ceremony in formal attire and salute the Swedish royal family, the Ig Nobel Prize winners must salute traditional Swedish meatballs during the award ceremony and can wear a variety of costumes.

Of course, the winners of the Ig Nobel Prize also receive a prize - 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. It seems to be a "huge amount of money", but it is only about 0.18 yuan when converted into RMB.