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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....' |