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The annual celebration of the year's silliest science starts at 5:40 p.m.
Pitch Drop Experiment Scientist Dies Without Ever Seeing A Drop Fall
Nobody has ever witnessed a drop fall from this demonstration, which has run continuously for 86 years.
The 2011 Ig Nobel Award Winners: Wasabi Alarm Clocks, Beetle/Beer Bottle Fornication, and More Weird Science
The annual Ig Nobel award ceremony is one of, if not our absolute favorite awards shows of the year. For...
Tune In Here at 7:30PM EST for the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, Live
The Ig Nobel prize, which awards the year’s weirdest scientific achievements (last year’s included studies on fruit bat fellatio and...
This Year’s Ig Nobel Prize: Fruit Bat Fellatio, Whale Snot, and More Weird Science
The Ig Nobel Prize studies are not a joke, but that's not to say you won't laugh.
And the Ig Nobel Goes to . . .
Coke as spermicide, placebo prices and the ovulation cycles of strippers were just some of the winners at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
And the Ig Nobel Goes To…
As my colleague has pointed out below, this week off in some place called Sweden, five prizes are being given...
