[SKRIVA] IgNobel-priserna 2011
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 21:24:31 +0200
IgNobel-priserna för "osannolik forskning" delades nyligen ut. Video finns på:
http://improbable.com/ig/
Jag citerar ur pristagarlistan för 2011:
"PHYSIOLOGY PRIZE: Anna Wilkinson (of the UK), Natalie Sebanz (of THE
NETHERLANDS, HUNGARY, and AUSTRIA), Isabella Mandl (of AUSTRIA) and Ludwig
Huber (of AUSTRIA) for their study "No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the
Red-Footed Tortoise."
CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu
Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami of JAPAN, for
determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to
awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying
this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm.
MEDICINE PRIZE: Mirjam Tuk (of THE NETHERLANDS and the UK), Debra Trampe (of
THE NETHERLANDS) and Luk Warlop (of BELGIUM). and jointly to Matthew Lewis,
Peter Snyder and Robert Feldman (of the USA), Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, and
Paul Maruff (of AUSTRALIA) for demonstrating that people make better decisions
about some kinds of things — but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚
when they have a strong urge to urinate.
PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE: Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, NORWAY, for
trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh.
LITERATURE PRIZE: John Perry of Stanford University, USA, for his Theory of
Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on
something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even
more important.
BIOLOGY PRIZE: Darryl Gwynne (of CANADA and AUSTRALIA and the UK and the USA)
and David Rentz (of AUSTRALIA and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind
of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle
REFERENCE: "Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females
(Coleoptera)," D.T. Gwynne, and D.C.F. Rentz, Journal of the Australian
Entomological Society, vol. 22, , no. 1, 1983, pp. 79-80
PHYSICS PRIZE: Philippe Perrin, Cyril Perrot, Dominique Deviterne and Bruno
Ragaru (of FRANCE), and Herman Kingma (of THE NETHERLANDS), for determining why
discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don't.
MATHEMATICS PRIZE: Dorothy Martin of the USA (who predicted the world would end
in 1954), Pat Robertson of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1982),
Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1990),
Lee Jang Rim of KOREA (who predicted the world would end in 1992), Credonia
Mwerinde of UGANDA (who predicted the world would end in 1999), and Harold
Camping of the USA (who predicted the world would end on September 6, 1994 and
later predicted that the world will end on October 21, 2011), for teaching the
world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations.
PEACE PRIZE: Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, LITHUANIA, for demonstrating
that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them
over with an armored tank.
PUBLIC SAFETY PRIZE: John Senders of the University of Toronto, CANADA, for
conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an
automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his
face, blinding him."
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