The day has come when the "prestigious" 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded 
It is a delightful annual event, highly entertaining and full of imaginative, mostly useless, but thought-provoking, inventions and scientific discoveries.
After 4 pandemic-years of online ceremonies, today's event will be held with an audience in a hall at MIT.
Webcast starts at 6 p.m. ET.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_M13LM9Vz0
Organized by @MarcAbrahams
Check out past awards at
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
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The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2024)
The 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded at the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday evening, September 12, 2024, at MIT (The Massachusetts...YouTube
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"The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology."
"In each ceremony, the Ig Nobel Prizes are physically handed to the winners by genuine (and genuinely bemused) Nobel Laureates."
See post #1 for details of the ceremony this evening.
https://improbable.com/ig/about-the-ig-nobel-prizes/
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