Word: ig
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Instead, in a ceremony where more than 1200 audience members were actually encouraged to heckle, master of ceremonies Marc A. Abrahams '78 and an entourage of Harvard Nobel laureates presented the fourth annual Ig Nobel awards...
...this end, the JIR each year hosts a ceremonyto present the "Ig Nobel" awards, a spoof of theprestigious Swedish awards. The Ig Noblescelebrate the humor in legitimate, butquestionable, research...
...example, the 1993 Ig Nobel in Psychologywent to John E. Mack, professor of Psychiatry atHarvard Medical School and David Jacobs of TempleUniversity. Their prize-winning conclusion wasthat people who believe they were kidnapped byaliens form outer space probably were...
Wearing a jaunty sailor's cap and hamming it up admirably, Glashow handed out the Ig Nobel prizes to the esteemed recipients...
...Ig Nobels, presented on the first Thursday in October, have been an MIT tradition since last year...