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32. There really is an IgNobel Prize. It's given out once a year

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 10:25 PM

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on NPR's program, Science Friday, so it's a science prize, not for peace. I don't remember what time of year, but I have heard it a few times.

The program is an hour long. Several people get "awards" for offbeat research projects in various science categories. When called on for the award, they explain it in complex, formal sounding terminology. Then they have to put it into layman's terms in a very limited number of words, like 10. .

It's a spoof on the kinds of silly sounding research that scientists can do.

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