The 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony takes place on Thursday, September
20th at Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ten (10) prizes are awarded. The winners have all done something
that first makes people LAUGH and then makes them THINK.

• Category

  Science & Technology

[ImprobableResearch]

Because science can be funny as well as thoughtful.

[charitycrafter]

Please explain the people in silver holding the flashlights. I'm sure it's something very clever.

[ImprobableResearch]

Those are our Human Spotlights.

[AdderSIG]

This will be online exactly as I go to bed. Please tell me it will remain or be uploaded when I return.

[ImprobableResearch]

I believe it should remain, and if not, we will definitely upload it after the fact as we have the other ceremonies.

[tkmxx1]

The Ceremony starts at about 48 min. from the start of the very pixelated event.

Free advice for next year: please get a video editor and make the uploaded event watchable...

[pgmrgff]

Please don't stop. I'm not bored.

[Slartibartfass13]

...have you ever been to a university? OF COURSE they're crazy.

[jal0987654321]

you're being facetious. tell me, why is it important to know that by leaning one way the eiffel tower seems smaller or why people sigh?

[DeepBlueAndMe]

If the universe is male and it wore the dress, then it would be cross-dressing.

[lucyrickyalex]

At first, I thought the empty chair represented the 2009 Nobel Laureate for Peace, Barack Obama!

[witnword]

To Improbable Research: I'd like to put a short clip on KTVU News. Please call ASAP. 415.505.5908. thanks, Robin

[justjc51]

I had bigger problems looking at the male version. Where was the V-chip man when someone decided to put him in tight fitting speedos?

Great show and interesting show though, when it finally began, not speaking of the male human flashlight here ;-)