Organized by the Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Noble Awards offer ponderous hilarity every year without fail.
From Collecting Flies to Putting Pants on Rats, Here Is This Year”™s Ig Nobel-Winning Research
by Mark Pratt
AP
September 22, 2016
(BOSTON) “” A Swede who wrote a trilogy about collecting bugs, an Egyptian doctor who put pants on rats to study their sex lives and a British researcher who lived like an animal have been named winners of the Ig Nobels, the annual spoof prizes for quirky scientific achievement.
The winners were honored “” or maybe dishonored “” Thursday in a zany ceremony at Harvard University.
The 26th annual event featured a paper airplane air raid and a tic-tac-toe contest with a brain surgeon, a rocket scientist and four real Nobel laureates.
Winners receive $10 trillion cash prizes “” in virtually worthless Zimbabwean money. Read more here and here.