This week's podcast brings you our coverage of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes for the year's wackiest science. Presented last week, the awards honor research that "Makes you laugh, then makes you think." The research highlighted is by its nature zany, and the presentation ceremony itself is just as bananas.
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Deborah Henson-Conant's electric harp warms up the audience before the show. |
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Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobels, greets the crowd while one of the show's human spotlights helps illuminate his good side. |
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Moments after taking this photo, our intrepid photographer was pummeled by hundreds of paper airplanes. |
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...The terrible aftermath. |
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Masanori Niimi accepts the medicine prize for his teams research into how opera music helps mice heal after heart transplants. Xiangyuan Jin demonstrates. |
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Alberto Minetti and Yuri Ivanenko accept the physics award from Wilczek for researching how humans can run on water on the Moon. |
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The secret to Moon water walking... plastic fins strapped to your feet and running really fast. |
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The thrill of discovery. Brian Crandall won the Archeology prize for finding out what happens to the bones of shrews when you eat them. |
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Don't worry Mr. Chef, the winners of this year's Chemistry Prize, Shinsuke Imai and his team, discovered why onions make you cry. |
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The real star of the show. The 2013 Ig Nobel prize handed out to each of the winners. |
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