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...Murray, an MIT employee in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, was at the Ig Nobels for the third year in a row. "It's nuts, because there's nothing else like it," she said...
...person Ig Nobel audience was made up of an eclectic group of students, scientists, authors and ordinary citizens who were up for something completely outrageous...
...point of all this craziness? If not to see dignified scientists make complete fools of themselves, it must be to reveal the true world of science and academics to an unsuspecting public, said John A. Barrett, official Ig Nobel referee and an administrative assistant in the physics department...
Only about two percent of the nominees each year actually win Ig Nobel Prizes, according to Marc A. Abrahams '78, who accepts the nominations year-round...
...those, only the names of the most promising nominees are submitted to the Ig Nobel Board of Governors, whose members range from Nobel laureates to people right off the street...