IgNobel Prize

parody of the Nobel Prize

originally for discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced."

now for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."

  • roughly half the winners actually attend the ceremony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners


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