Ice cream can participate in chemotherapy and alcoholic beverages.

At 6 am Beijing time, the 32nd first funny Nobel Prize was announced!

You read it wrong, it is indeed "the 32nd first". The funny Nobel Prize has been awarded once a year since 1991, but it is always the first session, just as some friends think they are always 18 years old ... I will always be young! Keep mystery forever!

What wonderful studies have this award that can be called the "Confusion Award" in the scientific community? The fruit shell takes you to see it first.

It seems that it is not too valuable special effects

Affected by the epidemic, this year's funny Nobel Prize still adopts the form of online videos. The conventional awards place Harvard Sanders Theater has become expected. There is a theme every year's funny Nobel Prize. The theme of this year is "knowledge", so the trophy issued is also a "container that puts knowledge" -however, you see it like a wrinkled paper tube (clearly that is).

Don't doubt, the paper tube on the table is a trophy!

As last year, the trophy was distributed in the form of PDF documents. The winners need to print and stick it. In order to save it for a long time, it is necessary to avoid wind and rain. The winners can also harvest a Zimbabwe coin printed with 10 trillion astronomical numbers -but because of inconvenient mailing, this banknote can only be the fake money printed by the winners (saying that fake money is really not illegal?) Native

Poor and strong! Although the trophy and prizes are poverty, the online awards are still full of rituals, and several real Nobel Prize winners are responsible for the awards.

Naturally, the routine throwing plane is naturally not missing:

Will the annoying paper plane fly farther?

This time, the organizer awarded a total of 10 awards. Compared with the past, more researchers from different countries have won awards. Among them, Chinese researchers are involved in the Physics Award and Peace Award.

Below, let's play one by one!

Application of heart award: heartbeat allows heartbeat synchronization

The research of this group of winners found that when people wipe out their romantic sparks, their heartbeat also quietly synchronized.

In order to verify this, the researchers launched a quick -matching business at large events, inviting 142 single men and women who had never seen before, to start a "lightning dating" in the hut. The subject wore a follow -up glasses to monitor the heart rate and sweat of the palm of the palm, and started a 4 -minute enthusiastic communication with the potential objects.

Experimental site

During the event, 17%of the pairing subjects attracted each other, and both sides were willing to continue to develop. And these people who spark their sparks have also become synchronized: their heartbeat speeds or slows at the same time.

understood! Next time, remember to carry two watches that can measure the heart rate with you.

Literature Award: Why don't you talk about the contract?

Reading the clause always feels dark in front of you? You don't have to blame yourself lack of legal knowledge, this is a strange legal text that is too anti -human!

Several winners of the Literature Award conducted a detailed analysis of legal texts and explored the reasons why this kind of style does not speak. They compare legal texts with other texts such as magazines and novels to find out various difficulty characteristics. Next, they also conducted a read -alpha and modification on the terms of the contract, and proved through experiments to prove that this modification helps improve understanding and memory.

Studies have found that the most obstructive understanding in legal text is not a professional concept, but a bad sentence writing method. These provisions are always inserted in the middle of the sentence, which will cause the key information of the main sentence to separate too far from each other, making the sentences unspeakable and remembering. (At this time, the editor -in -chief of the fruit shell growls beside: the same is true of popular science articles, remember to use more short sentences, short sentences!)

Biology Award: Constipation scorpion can also mate

Some scorpions (Ananteris) living in South America can escape from tails when they are in danger, but they have to pay a high price -they will always be troubled by constipation for the rest of their lives (I can't pull out shit).

As the "tail" (exactly the hind body) is broken, the scorpion will lose the anus, and the end of the digestive tract will also be blocked by the scar tissue. From then on, they lost their bowel movements, and the more shit in their stomachs, and they died of severe constipation.

To explain the scorpion break, the researchers also prepared cute plush toys.

But even so, the researchers have found that these constipation scorpions can still be successfully mated, and females can continue to produce offspring -but the number of offspring is reduced by about 35%compared to healthy females. Although the price of severe constipation is paid, it seems worth it for them.

Medical Award: Ice cream is more matched with chemotherapy

Eating ice cream and chemotherapy can effectively reduce side effects. This is the research of this year's medical prize winner.

When receiving the prize, the researchers did not forget to eat an ice cream.

Before the transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells, doctors need to use high -dose chemotherapy drugs for pre -treatment. This treatment often leads to the side effects of oral mucositis -ice cream is prepared to prevent this side effect. The principle of preventing side effects is to reduce the temperature of the oral cavity so that it can shrink blood vessels and reduce the dose of drugs in the contact of mucosa tissue.

Isn't it okay to contain ice or drink ice water? Of course, but who would refuse the sweet ice cream -especially when they were provided for free in the hospital restaurant.

Engineering Award: How many fingers do you use?

How many fingers will use a finger to rotate the knob? This year's engineering award -winning winner observes the laws behind this.

Researchers have produced a series of wooden cylindrical knobs ranging from 7 mm to 130 mm, which is equivalent to a size span from a pen to a CD. They invited the subjects to rotate these knobs separately and analyzed their movement changes. They found that when the knob diameter reaches 10 ~ 11 mm, the finger of the rotor changed from 2 to 3; when the diameter reaches 23 ~ 26 mm, the finger used to turn into 4; Turn all 5 fingers.

These observations are mainly to provide reference for industrial design, making the knobs more comfortable to use.

Art History Award: E enemical scenes on pottery tanks

The picture on the pottery below depicts the man who is making an enema with a special "syringe" for her enema. This may seem weird, but for the ancient Mayan people, enema seems to be a rare and ordinary creative theme.

In the later period of the Mayan Civilization Classical period, this time of enema has repeatedly appeared in pottery painting | Peter FURST.

The two winners of this year's art history award analyzed the enema scenes on these ancient Maya pots in detail with a papers of up to 50 pages, speculating the operation methods of enema and the significance of its representatives. Here, people's enema is not to treat diseases, but to perform some religious ritual. They may pour fermented alcoholic beverages in their intestines, or add some natural sources to fantasy substances.

Researchers use the model of sweet potato to demonstrate the shape and size of the enema appliance

In addition to theoretical analysis, one of the author Peter de SMET also personally challenged the enema, and it can only be said that the practical spirit of scientists is admirable. He was poured into a total of 0.5 liters of 5%alcohol solution in four times and proved that the enema was also intoxicating as drinking. (Dangerous operation, please do not imitate)

Physical Award: Duck

The duckling swimming has a unified formation: they are always arranged neatly behind the mother of the duck. Several winners of the Physics Award calculated the benefits of this swimming method through mathematical models.

They found that as long as you keep a suitable distance, the duckling behind the mother can reduce the wave resistance and swim forward with less energy. Each duckling not only enjoys the benefits of saving effort, but also transmits this effect along the queue to the next duckling. The first duckling in the team has the largest income. Since then, the second and third revenue have decreased, and the revenue obtained by the duckling later is basically the same. Using this formation may also reduce energy consumption.

Peace Prize: How to spread the gossip

When talking about gossip and spreading the gossip, when will people choose the truth and say, when will they choose to lie? This group of researchers carried out model analysis on the strategy of spreading rumors to try to find the option to maximize the benefit.

Bcothed news, I heard that we have to have a funny promise!

Of course, in order to establish a mathematical model, researchers have simplified the problem. There are three roles in their analysis: the people who spread the gossip, the person who receives the information, and the target object of the gossip. The person who receives information will play a double game with the gossip object, and both parties can choose cooperation or not to cooperate to achieve different returns. People who spread the gossip of the trails do not participate in the game, but they can disclose the mobile information of the gossip object to the receiver, which affects the game results -the researchers pay attention to whether the person should choose to tell the truth.

Not to mention whether the model research results are applicable to the actual situation. By spreading the trail message maintenance peace, this idea always feels that the wrong way ...

Economics Award: Success is full of luck?

Which one is more important to success? These winners are trying to find quantitative answers from the mathematical model. They simulated the success and failure of a group of people in 40 years of working hours, and found that the most talented individuals are actually the most successful, and the role of luck on success is greater than people expected.

Such a conclusion may resonate with you, but it must be explained that this is just a very simplified model analysis. There is only one virtual block world here. The virtual villain encounters some "events" wandering around in it, and decides the direction of the future based on the nature of the incident and its "talent".

Safety Engineering Award: False Deer collision model

In order to improve traffic safety, people often use fake fake people for collision testing, while Swedish winners Magnus Gens produced a moat version of the collision test model. There are hundreds of thousands of moats in Sweden, and accidents that collide with the camel on the road also occur from time to time.

In the eyes of engineers, this is a deer. | Magnus Gens

This fake deer is very abstract, not even the head, but its design is actually very particular. The fake deer model is assembled from a piece of rubber and steel wire rope. The researchers carefully selected the soft and tough rubber variety. It also set up an empty cavity, which carefully adjusted the density and quality to the same similarity to the real deer very similar to the deer. state. The actual test also shows that the fake deer model has a good restoration of the accidental accidents collision with the real camel.

Impact test using the camel model | Carpro1993 -Crash test archive

Finally, this online awarding photo ended in the speech of "goodbye. Goodbye", which has only two words "goodbye. Goodbye", a psychological linguist Jean Berko Gleason. The Funny Nobel Prize Awards were awarded the research that "laughing at first glance, and seeing people's thoughtfulness". This is the third year of the Funny Nobel Prize. I really hope that I can see it return to the scene next year.

And you can see that they are quite poor, so the funny Nobel founder Marc Abrahams calls on the awards ceremony to donate billionaires to them (also saying one millionaires are barely) ... I There is no money.

references

[1] https://www.nature.com/articleS/S41562-021-01197-3

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0010027722000580

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33625967//

[4] https://www.nature.com/articleS/s41598-021-02002-x

[5] https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jssdj/45/45_kj001647367/_ARTICLE/- Char/en

[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3528674/

[7]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/waveriding-and-wavepassing-by-ducklings-in-formation-swimming/94759A0FF7070D9D7CAC5907594B1781

[8] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0300

[9] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323302956_talent_vs_luck_the_of_INDOMNESS_AND_FAILURE

[10] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.54445rep=rep1type=pdf

Author: window knock rain

Edit: Li Xiaoqiu

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