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The Ig Nobel Prizes: Laugh and then Think

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The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded for the Improbable Research.

This year, the 27th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held. The event, which is taking place since 1991, has managed to please the world with "great" and "important" discoveries more than

WHAT??

Improbable Research is the research that makes people laugh and then think. Real Research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that may be good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. 


WHY??

The goal is to make people LAUGH and then THINK. I hope to spur people's curiosity and raise the question: How do you decide what's essential and what's not and what's real and what's not - in science and everywhere else?

IG Nobel Prize - Information, Nominations & Winners | Improb

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but. That's funny" - Issac Asimov.


The Ig Nobel Prize

The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, with the aim being to honor achievements that first make you laugh and then think. The name of the award prize is the pun to the Nobel Prize, which it parodies and the word ignoble. Ig Nobel prizes are awarded by actual Nobel Laureates.

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