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Scientist who proved you can't make a knife from frozen poo wins Ig Nobel prize

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This year's Ig Nobel for Medical Education was shared by a group of world leaders including Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin for their attitude around the pandemic.

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BBC News

Alligator on gas snaps up Ig Nobel prize

The 2020 Ig Nobel prizes honour crocodilian vocalisations, narcissistic eyebrows and vibrating worms.

4 years ago·United Kingdom

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Yahoo News

Poop knives, arachnophobic entomologists win 2020 Ig Nobels

Maybe this year's Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels. An anthropologist who tested an urban legend by fashioning a knife out of frozen human feces, and a man who found that spiders oddly give scientists who study insects the heebie-jeebies, are among the 2020 winners. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday's 30th annual Ig Nobel ceremony was a 75-minute pr…

4 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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News18 India

Poop Knives, Arachnophobic Entomologists Win 2020 Ig Nobels

Maybe this year's Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels.

4 years ago·India

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The Guardian

Melbourne academics win Ig Nobel prize for research showing worms vibrate like water

Physicist Ivan Maksymov and applied mathematician Andriy Pototsky placed worms on subwoofer in ‘what if’ momentBlasting a speaker to move garden worms in a regional Victorian backyard might sound more like a high school science experiment than a breakthrough in neuroscience.What started as an exercise in curiosity of two academics from Melbourne’s Swinburne University has found vibrations cause earthworms to form patterns in the same way water d…

4 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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abc News

Poop knives, arachnophobic entomologists win 2020 Ig Nobels

Not even the coronavirus could stop the 30th annual Ig Nobel ceremony, which annually recognizes sometimes dubious but always humorous scientific achievement

4 years ago·United States

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CNN

Scientists honored for giving alligator helium and making it shout

A team of scientists who put an alligator in a helium-filled box and made it shout have won an Ig Nobel Prize, a prestigious(ish) award that commemorates the science world's more unorthodox experiments.

4 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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