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Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of ... there wasn't much room left for actual explosives—hence the name, since it resembled a pelican "whose beak can hold more ...

The Ig Nobel Prize is a spoof award run by the science ... and then make them think.' The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word ignoble (not noble).

“Every Ig Nobel prize winner has done something that ... turned out to be alive on paper — and dead in reality.” The list goes on. “I had a lady reach 103 in a freezer,” says Newman.

Although the list of winning research might sound phony, this is far from the case. The vast majority of Ig Nobel awards are won by respectable, peer-reviewed scientific papers. They are ...