The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize WHEN: Thursday, October 6, 2005, 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n (Note: the pre-ceremony concert and the webcast begin at 7:15)<\/p>\n WHERE: Sanders WHAT: The 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony<\/a>. Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes WEBCAST: The ceremony will be webcast live, here at from Improbable.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Those wacky geeks at Harvard and MIT are at it again. In parallel with the august Nobel Prizes in Sweden, every year they award what they call the "Ig Noble" Prizes in Cambridge. Last year’s recipients included two sociology professors … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/images\/stinkerig.gif\")
Those wacky geeks at Harvard and
\n MIT are at it again. In parallel with the august Nobel Prizes in Sweden,
\n every year they award what they call the "Ig Noble" Prizes in Cambridge.
\n Last year’s recipients included two sociology
\n professors who found a link between country music and suicide; a physicist
\n who figured out how Hula Hoops stay up; a former police officer who co-invented
\n and patented the comb-over; and a 17-year-old who conducted what is believed
\n to be the first scientific test of the "five-second rule" —
\n the popular dictum that says it is okay to eat food that has fallen on
\n the floor if you pick it up within five seconds.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Ceremony<\/font><\/p>\n
\n Theater<\/a>, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
\n (Info about how to pahk your cah near Hahvud Yahd)<\/p>\n
\n were awarded in categories ranging from Physics, Medicine and Chemistry
\n to Literature and Peace. The new winners traveled to the ceremony, at their
\n own expense, from several continents. The Prizes were handed to them by
\n a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, all before a standing-room
\n only audience of 1200 people. Full details and action pictures will appear
\n in the Nov\/Dec 2005 issue of the Annals
\n of Improbable Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n www.improbable.com<\/a>. Details will be announced here a few days prior to
\n the ceremony<\/p>\n
![Ceremony<\/a>. Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes\n were awarded in categories ranging from Physics, Medicine and Chemistry\n to Literature and Peace. The new winners traveled to the ceremony, at their\n own expense, from several continents. The Prizes were handed to them by\n a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, all before a standing-room\n only audience of 1200 people. Full details and action pictures will appear\n in the Nov\/Dec 2005 issue of the](\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/view-from-stage-ig99.jpg\"){kind=link}