The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes Will Be Awarded Tonight

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2014 @06:36AM from the as-they-should-be dept.

alphadogg (971356) writes At Harvard University's Sanders Theater this evening, a collection of the most off-the-wall, bizarre and lurid scientific efforts of the past year will be dubiously honored with an Ig Nobel Prize. The Ig Nobels are awarded annually by Improbable Research, an organization devoted to scientific education that publishes the Annals of Improbable Research magazine six times a year. Past honorees have included:*A study about homosexual necrophilia in ducks; Competitive analysis of breakfast cereal sogginess; The discovery that dung beetles can navigate using the Milky Way galaxy. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. EST, and can be viewed online for free here.

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Re:Please Stop. by derdesh · 2014-09-18 14:18 · Score: 3, Informative

For those who don't get it, acceptance speeches at the Ig Nobel awards are strictly timed, and enforced by having a little girl call out "Please stop! I'm bored!" over and over once the award winner exceeds the time limit. The comment is actually quite funny.