Ig Nobel Prize

Examples range from the discovery that the presence of humans tends to sexually arouse ostriches, to the statement that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements for being the location of Hell, to research on the "five-second rule", a tongue-in-cheek belief that food dropped on the floor will not become contaminated if it is picked up within five seconds.[7] The prizes are mostly presented by Nobel laureates, originally at a ceremony in a lecture hall at MIT but moved in 1994 to the Sanders Theater at Harvard University for many years.[12] The event contains a number of running jokes, including Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, "Please stop: I'm bored", in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long.For many years Professor Roy J. Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official "Keeper of the Broom".As a direct result of these findings, traps baited with this cheese have been placed in strategic locations to combat the epidemic of malaria in Africa.
The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Andre Geim , Radboud University Nijmegen , and Michael Berry , University of Bristol , UK, for the magnetic levitation of a live frog. Geim was awarded an actual Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. [ 1 ]
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