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  The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research (Paperback) By (author) Marc Abrahams

  

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  Short Description for The Ig Nobel PrizesThe world-famous awards for the most bizarre and weird real-life scientific research.
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  • Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 04 September 2003
  • Format: Paperback 432 pages
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  • Categories: Science: General Issues | Popular Science | Humor
  • ISBN 13: 9780752842615 ISBN 10: 0752842617
  • Sales rank: 884,429

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• WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prize honours individuals whose achievements in science cannot or should not be reproduced. 10 prizes are given to people who have done remarkably bizarre things in science over the previous year. WHY: The 'Igs' are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and shine a spotlight onto the weird corners of laboratories around the world. PAST WINNERS: Peter Fong's experiment in which he fed Prozac to clams on the basis that if they chilled out more they'd taste better. Harold Hillman's report on 'The Possible Pain Experienced during Execution by Different Methods'...