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Tue 10 Oct 2009Quirky scientific research that raises a smile
MEDICAL MATTERS:YES, IT’S that time of year again. The annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony, a celebration of quirky scientific research took place at Harvard University last week, writes MUIRIS HOUSTON
Hosted by the journal Annals of Improbable Research, the Igs are an annual exercise in irreverence that celebrate studies which “cannot, or should not, be repeated”. The awards honour science that “first makes you laugh and then makes you think”.
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