MISSION IMPROBABLE

This year’s Ig Nobel Prizes recognised excellence in the fields of doorknob turning and Mayan ritual enemas

In what is now an annual tradition, the Annals of Improbable Research have announced their 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes, intended to celebrate science that makes people laugh, then think, presented by real Nobel laureates at a ceremony that was once again online due to the continuing Covid restrictions in the US. Probably the most infamous Ig Nobel went to Kees Moeliker in 2003 for his paper on homosexual necrophilia in mallard ducks, and this year the Physics Ig Nobel went jointly to the teams of Frank Fish and Zhi-MingYuan for another duck-related paper that explored why ducklings swim in a straight line behind their mother. Fish, appropriately enough a professor of fluid dynamics, had started the work by getting ducklings to swim behind a mechanical mother in a large tank…

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