Premios Nobel Ig 2010/Ig Nobel PRIZES 2010

Los premios Ig Nobel 2010, que reconocen cada año desde hace ya veinte aquellas investigaciones que parecen broma, pero que son reales., fueron entregados el 30 de septiembre de 2010.
Según los promotores se trata de : Investigación que hace SONREIR a la gente y después PENSAR.

INGENIERÍA: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse y Agnes Rocha-Gosselin de la Zoological Society de Londres, y Diane Gendron del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, México, por perfeccionar un método para recoger mocos de las ballenas mediante un helicóptero de radio control.
MEDICINA: Simon Rietveld de la Universidad de Amsterdam, y Ilja van Beest de la Tilburg University, por descubrir que los síntomas del asma pueden ser tratados con una vuelta en una montaña rusa.
TRANSPORTES: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi de Japón, y Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker del Reino Unido, por usar el moho del lodo para determinar las rutas óptimas para tender railes de tren.
FÍSICA: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, y Patricia Priest de la Universidad de Otago, Nueva Zelanda, por demostrar que la gente se cae menos si en el invierno la gente anda con los calcetines por fuera de los zapatos por caminos congelados.
PAZ: Richard Stephens, John Atkins, y Andrew Kingston de la Universidad de Keele, Reino Unido, por confirmar que en efecto soltar tacos alivia el dolor.
SALUD PÚBLICA: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, y Larry Taylor de la Oficina de Seguridad y Salud Industrial de Fort Detrick, Maryland, Estados Unidos, por determinar experimentalmente que los microbios tienden a pegarse a los científicos con barba.
ECONOMÍA: Los ejecutivos y directores de Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, y Magnetar por crear y promover nuevas formas de invertir dinero que maximizan las ganancias y minimizan los riesgos para la economía mundial, o al menos para parte de ella.
QUÍMICA: Eric Adams del MIT, Scott Socolofsky de la Universidad A&M de Texas, Stephen Masutani de la Universidad de Hawaii, y British Petroleum, por demostrarnos que estábamos equivocados al creer que el agua y el petróleo no se mezclan.
GESTIÓN DE EMPRESAS: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, y Cesare Garofalo de la Universidad de Catania, Italia, por demostrar matemáticamente que las organizaciones serían más eficaces si ascendieran a sus miembros al azar.
BIOLOGÍA: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, y Shuyi Zhang de China, y Gareth Jones de la Universidad de Bristol, por documentar científicamente la felación en los murciélagos de la fruta.

This is the list of the Ig Nobel Prizes 2010, that acknowledge every year, from twenty years ago, reserachs that seem a pun but are real. According to the promoters:
Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK

ENGINEERING: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin of the Zoological Society of London, UK, and Diane Gendron of Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Baja California Sur, Mexico, for perfecting a method to collect whale snot, using a remote-control helicopter.
MEDICINE: Simon Rietveld of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Ilja van Beest of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, for discovering that symptoms of asthma can be treated with a roller-coaster ride.
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PRIZE: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi of Japan, and Dan Bebber, Mark Fricker of the UK, for using slime mold to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.
PHYSICS Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.
PEACE Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK, for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA, for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
ECONOMICS The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money — ways that maximize financial gain and minimize financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.
CHEMISTRY: Eric Adams of MIT, Scott Socolofsky of Texas A&M University, Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii, and BP [British Petroleum], for disproving the old belief that oil and water don't mix.
MANAGEMENT Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.
BIOLOGY PRIZE: Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, and Shuyi Zhang of China, and Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol, UK, for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats.

REFERENCES
- "A Novel Non-Invasive Tool for Disease Surveillance of Free-Ranging Whales and Its Relevance to Conservation Programs," Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Agnes Rocha-Gosselin and Diane Gendron, Animal Conservation, vol. 13, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 217-25.
- "Rollercoaster Asthma: When Positive Emotional Stress Interferes with Dyspnea Perception," Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest, Behaviour Research and Therapy, vol. 45, 2006, pp. 977–87.
- "Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design," Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Dan P. Bebber, Mark D. Fricker, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Science, Vol. 327. no. 5964, January 22, 2010, pp. 439-42.
- "Preventing Winter Falls: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Novel Intervention," Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest, New Zealand Medical Journal. vol. 122, no, 1298, July 3, 2009, pp. 31-8.
- "Swearing as a Response to Pain," Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston, Neuroreport, vol. 20 , no. 12, 2009, pp. 1056-60.
- "Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men," Manuel S. Barbeito, Charles T. Mathews, and Larry A. Taylor, Applied Microbiology, vol. 15, no. 4, July 1967, pp. 899–906.
- "Review of Deep Oil Spill Modeling Activity Supported by the Deep Spill JIP and Offshore Operator’s Committee. Final Report," Eric Adams and Scott Socolofsky, 2005.
- “The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study,” Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo, Physica A, vol. 389, no. 3, February 2010, pp. 467-72.
- "Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time," Min Tan, Gareth Jones, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang and Libiao Zhang, PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 10, e7595.