2013 IgNobel awards

[Glitch Girl]

Putting the "Mad" back in science, the IgNobels are the yearly science prizes for research into the strange and often the ludicrous. 

Coverage on IO9 (warning: title includes name of male body part)

Loved the Safety Engineering Prize winner, the Peace prize boggles the mind, and The Blonsky Device makes me cringe just thinking about it.

And personally I think the Oscars could do with a Miss Sweetie Poo.

[Reepicheep]

This makes me happy. So very happy.

[Uncle Yuan]

Other than a somewhat titter evoking topic, I'm not sure why the Public Health award was given to the group from Siam.  From the brief description it seems to be a valid, and honestly medically significant, report.

[Epimethee]

My opera-singing wife obviously enjoyed the medicine prize.

Other than a somewhat titter evoking topic, I'm not sure why the Public Health award was given to the group from Siam.  From the brief description it seems to be a valid, and honestly medically significant, report.

Isn't that the point of the Ig: zany yet valid research?

(Obviously, the peace prize doesn't quite follow the same criteria...)

[stumpy]

And personally I think the Oscars could do with a Miss Sweetie Poo.

This! Or, perhaps, just a straight up ban on thanking anyone during an Academy Awards acceptance speech.

[thalaw2]

Well, no more being around live ducks for me without proper protection.