![]() ![]() ![]() Biology Prize co-winner Thomas Thwaits is escorted by minordomo Eliza Kosoy. The night also included two bouts of paper airplane throwing, scientific lectures conducted in just 24 seconds, and a mini-opera about the dastardly addition of a sneaky leap second to the world’s timepieces. This year’s award winners included researchers who studied the perceived personalities of rocks (from a sales and marketing perspective), a man who built himself prosthetic limbs so he could live with goats, and a scientist who found that, yes, the world really does look different if you bend over and view things from between your legs. The 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony salutes work that, in the words of Marc Abrahams, editor of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, “first makes you laugh, then makes you think.” Credit: Alexey EliseevĮarlier this fall, a group of science enthusiasts packed a theater at Harvard University for an evening of scientific silliness. Peace Prize winners Derek Koehler, Nathaniel Barr, Gordon Pennycook, and Jonathan Fugelsang, and the Human Clocks. ![]()
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