Pineapple Science Award has been a very serious awarding activity for scientific research achievements since it was founded on 20 12. But it's kind of fun. With the slogan of "Salute to Curiosity", it rewards those imaginative and interesting scientific research achievements and arouses people's curiosity and enthusiasm for science. Known as the China version of the "Ig Nobel Prize".
Because the selection rules are too strange, some scientists feel ashamed of winning the prize and refuse to accept it; Some scientists put it on their resumes as an honor.
Pineapple Science Award and Psychology Award
Hygienic method of separating husband and wife
Winner: Psychology Department, McGill University, Canada? Milie Auger et al
As the saying goes, teenagers are not sentimental. From a biological point of view, we have the basic need to establish and maintain attachment with others. A young man who has reached the age of marriage will never forget to look forward to a beautiful love even if he holds a thermos bottle for soaking Lycium barbarum.
However, there are many unexpected obstacles on the road of courtship. Dr. Emily OG, from the Department of Psychology at McGill University in Canada, and others found that if people start a relationship and improve t a's susceptibility to infectious diseases, for example, let ta notice that the plague is spreading, or do a questionnaire related to disease prevention, a human mechanism called behavioral immunity will be activated.
? Millie auger
The direct effect of this human mechanism is to make those health-conscious subjects' interest in love drop sharply, and they would rather bear the regret of missing true love, but also keep peach blossoms and viruses out of the door and never give in.
In recognition of the researchers' efforts to break up a couple in an epidemic era full of unknown dangers, they were awarded the 2020 Pineapple Science Award and the Psychology Award.
Pineapple science prize and physics prize
A bearded man was beaten.
Winners: Professor David R. Carrier, Department of Biology, University of Utah, USA.
Beard is facial hair preserved by human males in the process of evolution, and it is also one of their most obvious secondary sexual characteristics. It is a way of boasting and worthy of the name. From 199 1, the "World Beard Championship" is held every two years, and men with cool beards come to PK.
What's the use of growing a beard? A view called "Boxing Hypothesis" holds that beards may have a protective function similar to that of lion mane. Compared with females, males are more violent, and it is of course important for males to pay special attention not to be hit in the face when they are fighting hand to hand.
To test this hypothesis, David Karel, a biologist at the University of Utah, and a physicist at our school designed a drop weight test to test the impact resistance of hair. They found that complete fur has a very prominent protective effect, while shaved fur and pulled fur are useless, which also shows from one side that beating is the ultimate mission of beard compared with looking good.
In order to commend the researchers and give the dying beards a reason to live with a smile, they were awarded the 2020 Pineapple Science Award and the Physics Award.
Pineapple Science Award and Medicine Award
Games become prescription drugs for ADHD.
Winner: American game company Akili Interactive Labs.
Doctor: Your child has ADHD, so you should start receiving treatment as soon as possible so as not to affect your academic performance. I recommend the latest treatment for ADHD.
(Say, take out a stack of game publicity materials, "Let children play several classes, which can improve their attention." )
Parents:? Did you meet a liar?
In fact, this doctor is a real expert in this field, and the game he recommended is also real, called EndeavorRx, which was just approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June this year to treat some ADHD children aged 8 to 12. It is also the first game-based digital therapy device approved by FDA.
The full name of ADHD is "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder", and there are many different neurobiological reasons behind it. Studies have confirmed that by playing EndeavorRx, children can get higher scores in the test of "attention variable check", which may be that the game has changed the function and structure of the brain. However, the evaluation consultant of the Pineapple Science Award also pointed out that many games now claim to have "therapeutic" effects, which can indeed be confirmed in rigorous clinical trials.
Pineapple Science Award and Biology Award
Six disgusting factors of human beings
Winner: Professor Val Curtis from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. mícheal de Barra, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University
Do you remember the last time you were ill? Motion sickness, morning sickness, eating flies, stepping on the footstool ... although it will make people feel extremely uncomfortable, it is a very critical ability to make people feel this way. It reminds you that some things will bring you great trouble, so avoid them if you can.
Scientists throw you a questionnaire, and you need to rate 72 items, and the disgusting degree is 0- 100. For example, someone got his nose on the table, someone handed you a bowl of soup stirred by a fly swatter and stepped on a pile of maggots, which is indescribable, and a thousand words are omitted here. ...
I believe that after completing the questionnaire, everyone will have a kind of "God, why am I so cheap?" However, Professor Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Dr Michael Teh Barra of the Department of Life Sciences of Brunel University firmly believe that the six-factor scale of human nausea developed by them is firmly supported by the theory of evolutionary biology and can play a key role in making health policies in reality.
Pineapple Science Award and Fantasy Award
Building a lunar base with urine concrete
Winner: Anna-Lena Kj, Department of Engineering, University College, Osterford, Norway? Professor Nixon and others.
Perhaps in the near future, the moon migration tide will become a new round of wealth test for us. Some people can't get enough money to send their thighs to heaven even if they sell iron and lose everything. At this time, it is important to have some special values.
In the construction of the lunar base; Efficient plasticizer is needed to make qualified 3D printed concrete. Anna-Lena Jonesen of the University College of Osterford, Norway, and others found that there is an excellent candidate plasticizer hidden in the human body. After repeated tests, the cement made of urea, water and simulated lunar soil can pass all kinds of tests well.
In this way, when a moon enthusiast who is not so rich can provide proof that "I urinate much more than others, and I urinate better than others", he can also get a pass to settle in in advance and use his own boo to contribute to the construction of the moon city.
Pineapple Science Award and Mathematics Award
Study on the disappearance period of ordinary spoon
Winners: Dr. Campbell Caitken, Senior Research Fellow, Burnett Institute of Medicine, Australia, etc.
In this world, there are always some things that will leave us inadvertently. Dr Campbell aitken of Burnett Institute in Melbourne found that every time I went to the public area of the Institute for coffee, I couldn't find a stirring spoon. Oh, my God, what's going on? I asked them to buy a dozen and put them here the other day.
In order to find out the missing clues, the doctor bought 70 new spoons, skillfully numbered the bottom with nail polish, and counted the remaining spoons every two weeks. In this way, he calculated for half a year, and he obtained several important data. The half-life of spoons in public teahouses is 42 days, and the half-life of spoons in exclusive teahouses of the project team is 77 days, and the total disappearance rate is close to 0.99/100 teaspoons.
No one in the institute announced that he was responsible for the 56 spoons that could never come back. The doctor lamented that this is like the "tragedy of the commons" raised by Austrian economists in the19th century. Everyone wants to enjoy the convenience of public resources and let others protect and maintain them. Those spoons who are disappointed with human beings have probably gone to a planet without human beings and lived with bionic people, reptiles and tree people.
Pineapple Science Award and Invention Award
Winner: Handmade Geng
This is a young inventor with clear thinking and exquisite welder. He is called "Baoding Edison", and he is Geng's hand. His "not useless, but really useless" series, such as stainless steel skull collapse, boxing backpack and so on. , has been deeply integrated into our lives.
Every young man with social fear, when he walks down the street with a boxing backpack and meets another young man with the same boxing backpack, can't help punching like a hug, and there will be thunderous cheers around him.
Pineapple Science Award and Pineapple U Award
Physical formula manhole cover graffiti
Winner: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Don't step on the manhole cover! Because it is full of knowledge points!
Grandpa sweeps the floor at No.8 South Third Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing. Every manhole cover he sweeps is painted with mass-energy formula, Fourier transform and things you will never understand in physics class.
In this magical land, the Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences is located. Two years ago, in order to celebrate the 90th anniversary, they specially planned a graffiti activity on the manhole cover, smearing all the most important physics classics on the road. Look at this, it is Bernoulli equation, which was put forward by Bernoulli, a physicist from 1726.