IGNOBELS 2021

Upside down rhinos, defensive beards and fat, corrupt politicians…

STRANGE DAYS IGNOBELS 2021 Upside down rhinos, defensive beards and fat, corrupt politicians… Awarded every year by the Annals of Improbable Research, the IgNobel Prize rewards research that makes people laugh, then think. Previous years have seen the prize go to papers that involved homosexual necrophilia in ducks, the physics of dripping teapots and showing Star Wars films to locusts,. The 2021 crop is no less startling and diverse. Handed out by real Nobel laureates, although in an online ceremony thanks to Covid, this year’s IgNobels rewarded researchers from 24 countries on six continents. Winners of the 10 prizes included Commander John A Mulrennan (retired) of the US Navy, who received the entomology prize for eradicating cockroaches on submarines with a powerful organophosphate insecticide. The ecology prize went to researchers from…

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