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Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize

These are awards for academics that 'done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK.

They include research on


• the Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches to People
  
  
• the Laws of Decay of Beer Froth
  
  
• How to Estimate the Surface Area of an Indian Elephant (A problem that's always been worrying me)
  
  
• a Computer Based Dog to Human Speech Translator
  
  
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