The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes Will Be Awarded Tonight

alphadogg (971356) writes At Harvard University's Sanders Theater this evening, a collection of the most off-the-wall, bizarre and lurid scientific efforts of the past year will be dubiously honored with an Ig Nobel Prize. The Ig Nobels are awarded annually by Improbable Research, an organization devoted to scientific education that publishes the Annals of Improbable Research magazine six times a year. Past honorees have included:*A study about homosexual necrophilia in ducks; Competitive analysis of breakfast cereal sogginess; The discovery that dung beetles can navigate using the Milky Way galaxy. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. EST, and can be viewed online for free here.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Why can't we just use 2200 UTC like normal people?

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[Frosty Piss]

That's 0900 Zulu, pal.

Gak!

[gstoddart]

Past honorees have included:*A study about homosexual necrophilia in ducks

Now that is something I could have done without knowing about.

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[Anonymous Coward]

So... just like multiplayer FPS games, then?

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[penguinoid]

Ducks are notorious sex offenders [wikipedia.org]. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." is true for ducks because they have evolved a maze-like vagina for just that occasion.

And now I decree that you will never think the same way again about having "all your ducks in a row".

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[Andtalath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Please Stop.

[AltGrendel]

I'm bored.

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[Frosty Piss]

Go fuck yourself if your creed allows it...

It does, and I do it daily, sometimes more than once.

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[Scarletdown]

Go fuck yourself if your creed allows it...

It does, and I do it daily, sometimes more than once.

So, you are that Man from Nantucket then, I presume? :D

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[derdesh]

For those who don't get it, acceptance speeches at the Ig Nobel awards are strictly timed, and enforced by having a little girl call out "Please stop! I'm bored!" over and over once the award winner exceeds the time limit. The comment is actually quite funny.

No kidding? I saw it on the Intertubes...

[Frosty Piss]

The Ig Nobels are awarded annually by Improbable Research...

In other words, these "awards" have nothing to do with the Nobel Prize, and are essentially a "shits and grins" thing put on by some "organization" that few people have heard of?

No kidding? I saw it on the Intertubes...

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[Barsteward]

Intelligent design is tooooooo stupid for the Ig-nobels as there is zero science in it

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[Frosty Piss]

Yes it is a 'shits and grins' thing, but LOTS of people know about it, and it's been going on longer than your sorry ass has probably been alive.

Really? Older than 51 years? Listen, Anon, I've worked for universities, chip fabs, and the DoD longer than you've known how to masturbate.

Shitting dogs!

[paavo512]

The shitting dogs magnetic line orientation study is bound to belong among winners!
http://www.frontiersinzoology.... [frontiersinzoology.com]

JIR

[fermion]

Just to mention, since many have probably never heard of it, the JIR was a great to read in college. My favorite collection was Druken Goldfish [amazon.com]. I also particularly remember the study that sought to predict the date when National Geographics would trigger a world cataclysm.

This needs to be a BBT plot line

[RogueWarrior65]

Sheldon Cooper needs to do some research that gets him an Ig Nobel now that he's no longer doing string theory.

Also known as Slashdot headline awards.

[Lewrker]

Let's jump to conclusions because LOL they're studying POOP!

The winners

[Katatsumuri]

A brief summary of the winners is here. [go.com]