大千世界:搞笑諾貝爾獎 讓你HOLD不住的幽默

The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. The stated aim of the prizes is to "first make people laugh, and then make them think". Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, and they are followed by a set of public lectures by the winners at MIT.
搞笑諾貝爾獎，又譯“幽默諾貝爾獎”，是對諾貝爾獎的惡搞版本，其名稱來自Ignoble（不名譽的）和Nobel Prize（諾貝爾獎）的結合。該獎項於每年十月上旬授予“乍一看好笑，後又引人深思”的十大科學研究成就。主辦方爲科學幽默雜誌，評委中有些竟是真正的諾貝爾獎得主。地點爲哈佛大學的桑德斯劇場。獲獎者將有機會在麻省理工學院進行公開演講。

Here there are the 2011 Ig Nobel winners:
以下是2011搞笑諾貝爾獲獎名單：

PHYSIOLOGY: Anna Wilkinson, Natalie Sebanz, Isabella Mandl and Ludwig Huber for their study "No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise."
生理學獎：授予Anna Wilkinson， Natalie Sebanz， Isabella Mandl和Ludwig Huber，以獎勵他們有關“沒有證據顯示紅腿陸龜打哈欠會傳染”的研究。

CHEMISTRY: Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami for their wasabi alarm。
化學獎：授予日本團隊Makoto Ima，Naoki Urushihata，Hideki Tanemura，Yukinobu Tajima，Hideaki Goto，Koichiro Mizoguchi 以及 Junichi Murakami，以獎勵他們有關芥末警報器的發明。

MEDICINE: Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder, Robert Feldman, Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, Paul Maruff along with Mirjam Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop for studying the effects of holding in urine。
醫學獎：授予Matthew Lewis，Peter Snyder，Robert Feldman，Robert Pietrzak，David Darby，Maruff，Mirjam Tuk，Debra Trampe和Luk Warlop，以獎勵他們有關憋尿可能產生的影響的研究。

PSYCHOLOGY: Karl Halvor Teigen for trying to understand why people sigh。
心理學獎：授予Karl Halvor Teigen，以獎勵其對“爲什麼人類會嘆氣”的研究工作。

LITERATURE: John Perry for his theory of procrastination: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that's even more important。
文學獎：授予John Perry，其成果是“拖延”理論。他提出：作爲一個高產者，應當總是集中精力去做那些“重要的事”，作爲一種避免從事那些“更重要的事”的方式。

BIOLOGY: Daryll Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that certain kinds of beetles try to mate with certain kinds of Australian beer bottles。
生物學獎：授予Daryll Gwynne和 David Rentz，以獎勵他們有關“發現不同種類的甲蟲會和不同種類的澳洲啤酒瓶交配”的成果。

PHYSICS: Philippe Perrin, Cyril Perrot, Dominique Deviterne, Bruno Ragaru and Herman Kingma for trying to determine why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don't。
物理學獎：授予Philippe Perrin，Cyril Perrot，Dominique Deviterne，Bruno Ragaru以及 Herman Kingma，以獎勵他們有關“爲何鐵餅運動員總是會昏厥而扔鏈球的人則不會”的研究。

MATHEMATICS: Assorted doomsday predictors throughout history for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations。
數學獎：授予歷史上各色的世界末日預言家們，以表彰他們“以實際行動告訴世人，在進行數學估算時小心謹慎是多麼的重要”。

PEACE: Arturas Zuokas for solving the problem of illegally parked cars by crushing them with an armored vehicle。
和平獎：授予立陶宛市長Arturas Zuokas，以獎勵他成功解決了道路亂停車的問題，方法是駕駛一輛裝甲車去壓碎它們！

PUBLIC SAFETY: John Senders for his experiments in which a driver on a major highway repeatedly has a visor flapped down over his face。
公共安全獎：授予John Senders，以獎勵他進行的一項實驗。在實驗中，一名駕車人的面前有一個鴨舌帽不斷掉下來騷擾他的視線，干擾他的駕駛。