Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
Needless to say the ceremony was a complete success.
This years 10 prizes were produced by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine and awarded by actual Nobel laureates.
Paper airplanes flying at last night’s ceremony.Screenshot: Improbable Research / Youtube
But if you want to learn about some truly engrossing research, keep reading.
Before you get any funny ideas: this research is serious.
Again, these works are real research papers, the full list of which can be foundhere.
Last years winners featured a team that discovered how expecting a boring lecture could induce boredom in the audience.
Another team studied why people stop and look up when they see others doing the same.
A third team counted nose hairs in cadavers to look to see if both nostrils had the same number.
The complete list of last years winners can be foundhere.
The award was accepted by Skinners daughter, Julie Skinner-Vargas.
If that doesnt sum-up the Ig Nobel prizes themselves I dont know what will.
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