General Session
Location: Executive BallroomThe Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Every year, ten new prizes are awarded in a ceremony at Harvard University. Among the winning people and things:
The inventor of karaoke. A scientific test of the "5-second rule" about dropped food. Why woodpeckers don't get headaches. The effect of swearing on pain. A British man who lived as a goat. Scrotal asymmetry in man and ancient sculpture. The discovery of brain activity in a dead salmon. The physics of carrying hot coffee while walking. The efficiency of promoting people at random. The medical effects of sword swallowing. Creating diamonds from tequila. A centrifugal-force machine to help women give birth. The Zimbabwean government official who created the hundred-trillion-dollar bank note. Reducing kitchen refuse by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas. Murphy, of Murphy's Law. The American patent (#4,022,227) for inventing the combover. The Australian patent (#2001100012) for inventing the wheel. The medical report "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts."
Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel ceremony, will explain.
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