The Ig Nobel Prizes : The Annals of Improbable Research

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For 10 years scientists of Harvard University have scoured the worlds research establishments for the most bizarre and weird real-life scientific research. WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prize honours individuals whose achievements in science cannot or should not be reproduced. 10 prizes are given to people who have done remarkably bizarre things in science over the previous year. WHY: The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual honour the imaginative and shine a grubby spotlight onto the weird corners of laboratories around the world. PAST WINNERS: Peter Fongs experiment in which he fed Prozac to clams on the basis that if they chilled out more theyd taste better. Harold Hillmans report on The Possible Pain Experienced during Execution by Different Methods...