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The Ig Nobel Prize for CHEMISTRY is awarded to: VOLKSWAGEN, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions .

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Physics: Patricia Yang, Alexander Lee, Miles Chan, Alynn Martin, Ashley Edwards, Scott Carver, and David Hu, for studying how, and why, wombats make cube-shaped poo. 💩⬛️

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Psychology: Fritz Strack, for discovering that holding a pen in one's mouth makes one smile, which makes one happier — and for then discovering that it does not. 🖊️😃

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The #IgNobel prize for PSYCHOLOGY goes to a team who showed that people who stay up late are more likely to be psychopaths.

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The #IgNobel prize for ECONOMICS goes to the Italian government for including prostitution and drug sales in their economic figures.

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The first winner : medicine for using rollercoasters to pass kidney stones

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Paper airplane throw, at last night's #IgNobel Prize ceremony. Conducted by @aerognome of @fyfluiddynamics

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Announcing the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize winners -

Announcing the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize winners

The 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 9, 2021. Each winner has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Because o…

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The first #IgNobel prize is for PHYSICS! For measuring the friction between a shoe, a banana skin, and a floor.

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The fish depression news continues a long line of research HT Robert Koslover @nytimes

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The 1998 #IgNobel Biology Prize: Peter Fong, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Brain Science on Planet Earth #neuroscience

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The #IgNobel prize for BIOLOGY goes to a Czech, German & Zambian team for finding that dogs defecate according to the earth's magnetic field

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The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners -

The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners

The new Ig Nobel Prize Winners were introduced yesterday, at the 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The ceremony was webcast this year in several versions, including Spanish, Japanese, Chin…

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The #IgNobel prize in ARCTIC SCIENCE goes to a team from Norway & Germany for testing how reindeer react to humans disguised as polar bears!

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RT @betsythedevine @MarkGreenmantle : I never considered there'd be outtakes of the "His Master's Voice" promo shoot IN 1901 but now I can't stop laughing.

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Ig Nobel Winners Leap from Magnetized Cockroaches to Entangled Tardigrades -

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In her acceptance speech, researcher Patricia Yang celebrates this conclusive demonstration “that you can squeeze a square peg into a round hole.”

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Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid? A curious case of fluid dynamics , on the @improbresearch podcast

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Announcing the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners. Ten new prizes were awarded tonight at the gala ceremony. (This photo shows most of the team that won the Peace Prize.)

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Medicine: Silvano Gallus, for collecting evidence that pizza might protect against illness and death, *if* the pizza is made, and eaten, in Italy. 🍕🇮🇹

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The #Ignobel prize for NUTRITION goes to a Spanish team for the idea of using infants' fecal bacteria to make probiotic sausages.

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The 2020 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winners

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Economics: Habip Gedik, Timothy Voss, and Andreas Voss, for testing which country's paper money is best at transmitting dangerous bacteria. 💵🦠

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Yuri Nakahashi, a student at Hosei University, Japan, wrote a thesis about sleeping with a cat night after night in locations chosen by the cat.

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Announcing the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Winners -

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The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony happens today — Thursday, Sept 15, 2022 — at 6 pm (U.S. eastern time). Watch the webcast is at

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Anatomy: Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa, for measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France. *emoji redacted by the NSFW Indicator*

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Scary animals : a new classification [study] -

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"When science becomes a laughing matter" @SLSingh @LisaOberzaucher @robinince @ProfBrianCox @neildelamere

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Ig Nobel Prize winner Bolsonaro's Hiccups: Will He Demand 2006 Winner's Treatment? -

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Explaining why spin-1/2 particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics

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Did you know: The #IgNobel is not merely the greatest honor the scientific community can bestow; it also comes with cold, hard cash in the form of a Ten Trillion Dollar bill.

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A shortest-possible walking tour through the pubs of the UK -

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Auke-Florian Hiemstra joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC) -

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Biology: Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke, and Tomasz Paterek, for discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches. 🧲🐜

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Chemistry: Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano, and Seiji Igarashi, for estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old child. 👦💧

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We are informed that Donald J. Trump won an Ig Nobel Prize... -

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It is awarded for using fluid dynamics to probe the question “Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?”

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One week from today: The 2022 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

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Ig Nobel Medical Education Prize Winner Continues His Lesson. The prize was awarded September 17.

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@pennjillette and Teller's tribute to Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy Hurtubise, who died this past week.

Exit, pursuing a bear: Farewell Troy Hurtubise

We have just heard the sad news that Troy Hurtubise died in a car-truck crash near his home town, North Bay, Ontario. We got to know Troy in 1998 when he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in the field …

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The 2021 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony webcast -

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Announcing the 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes winners -

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A final thought. If you didn't win an IgNobel prize, and if you did, better luck next year!

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Announcing the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners! -

Announcing the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners!

Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night (September 22, 2016), at the 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. The prizes honor achievements …

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Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability [research study]

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The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen on Thursday, September 15, 2022. Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced. Each has done something that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Details are on the ceremony web page

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by automatically, electromechanically producing FEWER emissions whenever the cars are being tested

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The #IgNobel prize for ART goes to a team from Italy for measuring pain suffered when looking at ugly paintings while being shot by lasers

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The prize for NEUROSCIENCE goes to a team from China for working out what happens in brains of people who see Jesus in a piece of toast!

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Algorithmic Distinguishing of Novelists from their Punctuation Patterns -

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[link] Ig Nobel Prizes　その4　回転遠心力による赤ちゃん出産援助装置 - 知財アナリストのひとりごと :

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The prize-winning lecture about recognizing bullshit

The 2016 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winners explain about people’s craving for bullshit, in their Ig Informal Lecture, as you see in this video: The prize was awarded to Gordon Pennycook, James All…

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Ig Nobel on @SciFri , on the day after Thanksgiving! The 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in a specially-edited, recorded one-hour highlights version.

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Peace: Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Gil Yosipovitch, for trying to measure the pleasurability of scratching an itch. ⛏️🤗

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Here come the paper aeroplanes!

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TONIGHT! The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, webcast at 6:00 pm [US eastern time]. And there's a simultaneous webstream in Japanese.

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A 2020 Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to 9 countries' heads of state, for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.

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Some Physics of an Often-Falling Coyote

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Ig Nobel Medical Education Prize Winner Continues His Lesson -

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The 2017 #IgNobel Prize winners were awarded at @Harvard . Video & 1st press accounts:

Watch the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony live!

UPDATE: Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners were introduced at the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Sanders Theater, Harvard University. This year’s theme was “UNCERTAINTY”…

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. @FardinMarc , the physicist who won an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that cats can be both a solid and a liquid, arrived on Twitter today. You might want to follow him.

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The #IgNobel prize for PUBLIC HEALTH goes to two teams for studying whether or not it is dangerous to live with a cat.

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The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be broadcast on the @scifri program this Friday, November 23rd, 2018, in a specially-edited, recorded one-hour version.

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The Biology prize: for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, it walks like a dinosaur.

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Medical Education: Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon, for using a simple animal-training technique— called "clicker training" —to train surgeons to perform orthopedic surgery. ⚕️🐩

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Remembering Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy Hurtubise, who developed and personally tested a suit of armor to protect against grizzly bears

Remembering the grizzly bear obsessed Troy Hurtubise and his infamous suit

Flashbacks: Troy died fours years ago, leaving behind a widow, a son and a bear-protection suit in a North Bay hock shop.

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"Research by Utrecht University now shows that the paws of assistance dogs are cleaner than the shoe soles of their users, and thus, paw hygiene is no reason to ban assistance dogs from hospitals."

Paw hygiene no reason to ban assistance dogs from hospitals

Research by Utrecht University shows that the paws of assistance dogs are cleaner than the shoe soles of their users, and thus, paw hygiene is no reason to ban assistance dogs from hospitals.

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@TheDreadShips live-tweeted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in a most skillful, dreadnoughtty, delightful way. Well worth navigating through the entire passage with this navigator at work. (The experience reminds us that Mark Twain was a Mississippi riverboat pilot, early on.)

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Reluctant to draw attention to @improbresearch following this account in case they realise it was an administrational mistake BUT the Ig Nobel prize ceremony is minutes away. Watch it here:

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This year's #IgNobel Prize in Engineering: Iman Farahbakhsh, for inventing a diaper-changing machine, for use on human infants. 🚼⚙️

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A final thought from @MarcAbrahams : If you didn’t win an #IgNobel prize this year—and especially if you did—better luck next year! Good night!

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Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Jacques Chirac has died

Jacques Chirac, who was awarded the 1996 Ig Nobel Peace Prize, has died. A news report in DW says: “The former French president, Jacques Chirac, has died ‘peacefully’ at the age o…

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"There comes a time in a scientist’s life when the surest route to global fame involves a bevy of naked French postmen with thermometers taped to their testicles." #HowToBeginAnArticle

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RT @betsythedevine @DannyDutch : Stop what you're doing and watch a master at work!

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Ko... co-published a research paper titled "The physics of tossing fried rice" with David Hu — a scientist most famous for his studies on fire ants and an Ig Nobel Prize-winning investigation into why wombats have cube-shaped poop.

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Take a potato... [HT @masonporter ]

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Watch the hilarious Dr. Tatiana give an amazing demo about what inertia is using potato physics!! #TAMU

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New, tail-swinging research from the urination-duration lab -

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YouTube’s notorious takedown algorithm is blocking the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. We have so far been unable to find a human at YouTube who can fix that. We recommend that you watch the identical recording on VImeo.

The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 2021

The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, September 9th, 2021 at 6 PM US eastern time. It will introduce ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners,…

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Ig Nobel Prizes Exhibition opens TODAY, Sept 22, in Tokyo -

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Doughnut holes revisited (new essay) -

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It would be hard to top this headline: "Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel prize for do-it-yourself colonoscopy"

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"Les chats sont‑ils liquides ou comment j’ai obtenu le prix (Ig)Nobel"

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Doughnut holes revisited (in scholarly fashion)

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Joanna Morris summarizes "Theory of Mind" in seven words: "surprise! other people are just like you"

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The #IgNobel prize for MEDICINE goes to a US-Indian team for finding that one can treat nosebleeds by inserting strips of cured pork.

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For demonstrating that regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.

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New Mathematical Model Helps Explain the Strength of Interleaved Phonebooks -

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The scientists who did this research were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2015

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An elephant's bladder can hold nearly 18 liters of fluid, and yet, it can pee just as quickly as a cat. A research has revealed that, regardless of size, all mammals larger than rats take roughly the same amount of time to urinate - 21 seconds

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Ig Nobel Medical Education Prize Winner Continues His Lesson

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Excitement is in the air, soon to be followed by paper airplanes, as rehearsals get underway for tomorrow night’s #IgNobel ceremony.

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The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education was awarded to 9 countries' heads of state, for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.