From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for research that 'makes people laugh, then think'
Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes today, each so extremely surprising that, in the event’s long tradition, it makes people laugh, then think.happened at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a lecture hall filled with paper airplanes thrown by audience members respectful of the Ig Nobel tradition of recycling paper by bringing it along and turning it into disposable aircraft.
Marjolaine Willems and her colleagues collected the anatomy prize, for studying whether the hair on the heads of most people in the northern hemisphere swirls in the same direction as hair on the heads of most people in the southern hemisphere.Countless metaphors and turns of phrase relate to the research that earned the physiology prize for Takanori Takebe and his colleagues.
This year’s collection of Ig winners finishes with a bang. Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen were posthumously awarded the biology prize for anthey did in the 1940s. The duo exploded a paper bag next to a cat that was standing on the back of a cow, to explore how and when cows spill their milk.
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