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...anti-Christ. This year, the event continued its tradition of zany humor. The ceremony opened with an introduction by past winner Dan Meyer, who promptly swallowed a sword onstage. Meyer won his Ig Nobel for studying sword swallowing and its effects. Later, a parade of “Ignitaries?? entered the theater, and a number of student delegations were recognized by standing and spinning three times. Throughout the event, attendees sent a deluge of paper airplanes from the balcony and loudly cheered each time a presenter mentioned the night’s theme: “redundancy...
...Francis M. Fesmire ’81 won for his medical case report, “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.” Over 1,200 people gathered in Sanders Theater as genuine Nobel Laureates, Ig Nobel recipients, and other “ignitaries?? participated in this year’s ceremony honoring achievements that “make people laugh, and then make them think.” The night’s sponsor, the science humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research,” distributed awards for everything from...
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