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Improbable Research and the IgNobel Prizes
April 1, 2005
Marc Abrahams editor, Annals of Improbable Research [homepage]

Join the IgNobel Prizes founder and host Marc Abrahams for a look at some of the most mind-popping IgNobel Prize winners.

The IgNobel Prizes, awarded annually at a ceremony at Harvard University, honor things that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The awards are designed to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology.

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Author: Marc Abrahams
Publisher: Orion Paperbacks (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 432 pages
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Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages

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