With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are awarded for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the previous year, it would be remiss of The Register not to observe the honors handed out by the gong's bratty little brother, the Ig Nobel Prize.
Pigeon-guided missiles, drunken earthworm study wins Ig Nobel Prize • FRANCE 24 Swedish
The satirical ceremony has been run annually since 1991 by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, which serves the laudable goal of highlighting "research that makes people laugh… then think." In other words, the odd, trivial, insane and crazy.
It's just a bit of absurdist fun – winners are awarded sticky trophies, this time a piece of paper saying they've won an Ig Nobel Prize, and the traditional 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars (an antiquated currency that had a penchant for hyperinflation), but actual Nobel laureates carry out the awards ceremony, and they looked happy to be there.
Zimbabwe's 10 Trillion Dollar Banknote
