2022 Ig Nobel Awards — Funny and also Fasinating — #IgNobel

You might perhaps see the term “Ig Nobel Award” and think “the what award?”.

OK, let’s start there.

The IgNobel awards are parody, but also serious, and yet still done as a spoof, but the research that wins is real research published within credible peer-review journals. Those that win also generally turn up to claim their Ig Nobel.

Those that win also get a cash prize.

If you have honestly no idea what this is all about, have never come across it before, then a good place to start might be the Wikipedia page that describes it all. There they explain …

The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/ IG-noh-BEL) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, 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”).

Organized by the scientific humor magazine, Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater, Harvard University, and are followed by the winners’ public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]