The winners of the 32nd annual Ig Nobel Prizes were announced last night (September 15) via a prerecorded webcast. The awards, given by the Annals of Improbable Research, honor hilarious scientific achievements. But the prizes aren’t just for laughs: By making us giggle, the Ig Nobels “draw attention to the relevance that even seemingly bizarre research can have,” according to a 2020 blog post by Annals cofounder and editor Marc Abrahams.
West Chester University biologist Frank Fish, who shared this year’s physics Ig Nobel for his work on duckling swimming, tells the Associated Press: “Science is fun. My sort of a tagline is you’re not doing science if you’re not having fun.”
Ig Nobel winners received a PDF file that allows them to print and construct a paper container for storing “all their knowledge,” according to the video awards presentation, as well as a $10 trillion Zimbabwean note, which is ...
