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The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that “have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ridiculous things our best and brightest have studied.Co… Continue reading 2023 Ig Nobel Prize winners: Celebrating the silly side of science
Every year, the Journal of Improbable Research issues its prizes for the craziest (published) scientific research: the Ig Nobel Prize. The ceremony took place a couple nights ago, and if you want to see what you missed, we’ve embedded the (long) video below. (Trigger warning: Actual Nobel laureates being goofy.)
It’s hard to pick the best of freaky research, and the committee did a stellar job this year. The trick is that they don’t give the prize away to quacks — you won’t ever get one with your perpetual motion machine, for instance. Nope, the Ig Nobels go to the …read more
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