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The Ig Noble Prizes, the tongue-in-cheek scientific tradition going back twenty-six years, have just announced its latest winners.

First established at Harvard in 1991, the Ig Nobels celebrate odd and potentially uses scientific breakthroughs of the year. The awards weren't actually recorded until 1995, but ever since they've grown in popularity as a chance to view science from a unique, self-aware angle. Actual Nobel Prize winners hand out the awards. Most of those roasted by the Ig Nobles gladly accept the awards, both aware of the oddity of their work and eager for a chance to promote it.



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