Ig Nobel Prizes reward research on helium-huffing alligators and knives made of feces | Science | AAAS

Ig Nobel Prizes reward research on helium-huffing alligators and knives made of feces | Science | AAAS

Ig Nobels for poo knives, good kisses

The 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was a virtual affair this year, and still surprisingly delightful to watch. Winners, whose research “makes people laugh and then think”, received their prizes from ‘real’ Nobel laureates, along with a ZWL$10-trillion bill and the opportunity to summarize their discoveries in 7 words. Awardees included a study of cultural variations in kissing on the mouth and experimental evidence that (despite what you might have read in tales of the far north) knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work.

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Watch the virtual ceremony on the Ig Nobel website (1 hour 16 min video)Reference: Scientific Reports paper & Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports paper