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Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 20, 2012 @09:24PM from the get-your-prize dept.

alphadogg writes "The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony has honored a wide array of strange research and advancement over the years, from exploding pants to woodpecker headaches to aggressive parking enforcement, and Thursday night's ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., was no exception. Particular highlights included a Russian company that turns ammunition into trace amounts of diamond, Japanese engineers who developed a speech jamming device, and research into such critical topics as why coffee is so hard to carry without slopping and what makes a ponytail move the way it does."

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Re:IgNobels are a disservice to basic research by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2012-09-20 23:00 · Score: 5, Informative

From the Ig Nobel FAQ:

Are you ridiculing science?
No. We are honoring achievements that make people laugh, then think. Good achievements can also be odd, funny, and even absurd; So can bad achievements. A lot of good science gets attacked because of its absurdity. A lot of bad science gets revered despite its absurdity.

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Re:The double laureate by maswan · 2012-09-20 23:12 · Score: 5, Informative

You mean 2010? That's when Andre Geim got the Nobel prize in physics (for graphene), having previously gotten the Ig Nobel for levitating frogs.