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2021 Ig Nobel Prize Grab Bag, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Prizes in Acoustics and Acoustics

Sometimes the papers that get selected for these prizes are, i think, originally themselves intended to be satirical or funny. One example like that that comes to mind is there was a rhaology study one year about whether cats should be considered a solid or a liquid. Or sometimes it's just an important study that involves like, poop or vomit or something, and therefore is by virtue of the subong after hissing is inherently funny. We're not going to have a chance to cover all of the winners, but if you want to read about those, you can go to the annals of improbable research web site at improbable dot com. And you the full list of the awards, and click

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