#Ig Nobel Prize

Stories tagged “Ig Nobel Prize” in the Weird Science History archive — 6 stories connected by this topic.

• The Doctor Who Cracked the Knuckles of Only One Hand for 60 Years to Prove His Mother Wrong
• The Dung Beetles Scientists Fitted With Tiny Hats to Prove They Steer by the Milky Way
• The Wombat That Proved You Can Fit a Square Peg Through a Round Hole
• The Spaghetti That Stumped Richard Feynman by Refusing to Break in Two
• The Physicist Who Levitated a Frog — and Then Won a Real Nobel Prize
• The Weedkiller That Made New Zealand's Trousers Explode

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