Can Strangest Research Award

Numerous studies weirdest honored at the event “Ig Nobel Prize” to 21. Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel awards are given annually. All winning “Ig Nobel Prize” awarded a trophy which was presented by real Nobel laureates.

Strange research which was awarded, among others “There is no evidence that Yawning Contagious Phenomenon in Red Legged Tortoise” in the field of physiology and the study of why people have a habit of sighing in the field of psychology.

There is also a case study of why people dizzy when throwing discus and hammer throw is not the time “in the field of physics. In the field of mathematical research that won the title is the use of predictions of doom throughout history for people to be careful in counting.

In the field of biology, Professor Daryll Gwynne which is a behavioral ecologists won the award by making research why some species of male beetles Julodimorpha bakewelli “suicide” because it is more interested in “marrying” bottles of beer than female beetles.

“I am honored. The award is to make people think and a little laugh,” says Gwynne. He published his research results in 1983 and claimed to have long awaited news that he will win this award.

Gwynne admitted doing this research by accident. He saw many male beetles gathered in a beer bottle, ignoring the female beetle and eventually die by the sun. Once investigated, turned out to resemble a beer bottle with a sexy female beetles.

To think about is, if the neglect of females continued on a larger scale, it could have an effect on evolution. Second, this fact shows that males with a desire to marry was indeed so often choose the wrong circles.

Meanwhile, the existing research in chemistry and Mirjam Tuk Peter Synder from Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. In that study, Tuk saw the influence of body condition are needed to pee or to the toilet on the way decision-making and results.

“When people are at the point where they are in a state of ’sick’ is unbearable, it felt like he was drunk. The ability to accommodate the information is not working,” Synder said as quoted by the Daily Mail, Friday (09/30/2011).

Although a parody, this award is not intended to scoff. The goal is precisely to capture research outcomes strange but true to make people laugh and then think about it. The hope, interest in science, technology and health increased in this way.