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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Ig Nobels Awarded
Today





'[R]eal Nobel Laureates
... hand out the Ig Nobels,
awards given out by the
Annals of














Improbable Research
magazine [this site links
you to a live webcast]
for unusual and imaginative
scientific discovery.




Previous honorees - many of whom actually show up to accept the dubious distinction - have included people who invented a grizzly bear-proof suit of armor, studied a locust's reactions to watching "Star Wars" or timed humans swimming through syrup....'