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It was one of those days on which the researchers pitch like a storm dräuendes raise. The psychologist Joachim Funke and his colleague Heike Gerdes miesepetrig squatted in the laboratory of the University of Bonn. No experiment had worked, the subjects played with wrong.
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Gummibären Research: "The keep still, and taste good"
"Before we futterten frustration louder jelly babies," recalls Sparks, now a professor of General and Theoretical Psychology at the University of Heidelberg. "Eventually we started herumzuspinnen: gummy bears are certainly much nicer attempt objects. The taste and still hold good."
"Like a Stoßlüftung for the brain '
That was the birth of Gummibären research on a rainy November day 13 years ago. What followed is Gaga research at its best: In the beginning there were only a few psychologists colleagues, but then came the Internet portal Gummibaerenforschung.de over the years more and more contributions from anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, media researchers and physicists together dealing with social behavior, communication, sexual preferences and impact velocities of gum employed (Excerpts from the findings about the sexual fantasies and the communication of gummy bears
there is here).
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The lyrics are serious scientific treatises confusingly similar, and one can well imagine how the author when writing kichernd in the Gummibärchentüte access. "Pity," said Funke, "so that some colleagues do not understand fun. I have quite a few angry e-mails received: I would with my silliness my profession into disrepute and bring tax money verschleudern."
Complete nonsense, will spark. Finally, the pass-nonsense research in leisure. And it fulfills an important purpose: "You get through the little fun in between a healthy self-distance for your own guild and to their own work. It's like a brain for Stoßlüftung. Then I can return with fresh look at my actual work place. "
The fun of science Guerilla
Sometimes it is scientists who invented afloat with specialist knowledge of the world neatly heimzuleuchten. A particularly nice example is the "Cello testicles": The British physician Elaine Murphy 1974 published a contribution in the renowned magazine "British Medical Journal." Accordingly, should play the cello allegedly testicular trigger irritation. Only 34 years later
Murphy confessed that she had the disease, together with her husband invented - and was inspired by a report on a "guitar nipple", the friction of the instrument to be created at the nipples.
This effect of the humorous, the contemplative is scientifically proven, like Rainer Holm-Hadulla, creative researcher and director of psychological counseling at the University of Heidelberg, is confirmed. And historically, it is also demonstrated. "Goethe saw the stragglers and dreams to be very stimulating. And from Schiller comes to saying: The man is only as man, where he plays. This also applies to scientists. Who besides all of the concentrated work permits Playful and the distance to be itself, will experience how this can be creative, "says Holm-Hadulla.
What Albert Einstein to relax his violin, is nonsensical, the other scientist's research. Holm-Hadulla believes that researchers particularly susceptible to the appropriate free fun. Because even basic research is so relevant in some sense free: "It is about exploring, discovering and Sichfreuen on the results, although not immediately apparent is where and how to apply the results to come."
Dräcker, nail man, Dölle - all lie
Particularly popular seems to be the
Scientists inventing personalities to be. The constitutional Dr. Friedrich Gottlob nail man and the psychologist Prof. Dr. Ernst-August Dölle Although you can easily google and Wikipedia, among others, a lot about her life after moving researchers read.
Both are born but the imaginative brain researchers are just invented and how the Loriotsche Steinlaus, however, even the entrance into the medical manual Pschyrembel found. Such phantoms designed the Hamburg design student Stefan Schröter a few years
remarkable thesis.
"Good scientists are nerds, specialists, the researchers in their own world. In essence, they remain untouched by the growing and often playful, and good sense in the strange world," says Dr. Mark Benecke. The crime is the author biologist popular science books (including "Lachende Science"), reported on radio and TV over bizarre research and sits on the jury of the "Ig Nobel Prize".
Mood as the birthday party
"Ig" stands for "ignoble" (English for "unworthy"). The prize is awarded since 1991 every year in October by Harvard University for weird and useless research work. The most often arise in the sphere of "serious" research, and should laugh, but also to stimulate thought. Like, for example, the finding that a penguin pupsender produces so much pressure that it thus could inflate tires. A Brüller at the award ceremony.
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Benecke researchers: "In the good sense unworldly"
Germans are still scarce at the fun-Nobel laureates. Perhaps because they are still the reputation of humor loose Teutones ahead. 2002 allowed the physicist Arnd Leik - then research fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Physics Prize einzuheimsen: for the demonstration that beer foam with the laws of the exponential decay subject. This is not as funny as a penguin pupsender, but still very funny and enlightening for the beer drinker in the jury.
Mark Benecke is happy in any event every year at the awards ceremony: The mood at the ceremony, he says, always assigned to a same birthday. The researchers are in crazy costumes are dead and laugh about their own guild. "Only the colleagues from Asia have a small problem. For instance, if Asiate is ridiculed, he loses his face."
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