Ig Nobel Prize: Difference between revisions
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| + | The '''Ig Nobel Prize''' is an award presented annually since 1991 for achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".<ref>Improbable Research, "About the Ig Nobel Prizes".</ref> Ten prizes are awarded each year, often handed over by genuine Nobel laureates, and the prize money has at times been a ten-trillion-dollar Zimbabwean banknote. | ||
| + | Recipients have included the physics of [[Wombat|cube-shaped wombat faeces]] (2019) and a demonstration that a dead trout can be made to swim upstream (2024, Physics). | ||
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