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Prognosticators who predicted the end of the world and got it wrong, scientists who built a wasabi fire alarm, and researchers who studied how the urge to urinate affects decision-making were among the winners of spoof Ig Nobel prizes last Thursday, Reuters reported.

The annual prizes, meant to entertain and encourage scientific research, are awarded by the Journal of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes.

Ig Nobels also went to researchers who found that the male buprestid beetle likes to copulate with Australian beer bottles, and researchers who showed why discus throwers become dizzy and hammer throwers do not.

Former winners of the real Nobel prizes hand out the prizes at a ceremony held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. （点击路透社网站查看原文）

搞笑诺贝尔奖颁出

       据路透社报道，上周四的搞笑诺贝尔奖得主中包括：错误预言世界末日的预言家、制造芥末火警的科学家，以及研究尿急如何影响决策的研究人员。

       这个年度奖是为了娱乐并鼓励科学研究，由《匪夷所思研究期刊》颁出，也是对诺贝尔奖的恶搞。

       搞笑诺贝尔奖还颁给了发现雄性吉丁虫喜欢和澳大利亚啤酒瓶交配的研究人员，以及发现为何铁饼投掷运动员头晕而链球投掷运动员不头晕的研究人员。

       在马萨诸塞州剑桥市哈佛大学举行的仪式上，真正的前诺贝尔奖得主颁出了奖项。

(China.org.cn October 9, 2011)