I wasn't going to blog any more tonight, but I was looking at the BBC News site (as is my wont) and my eye was caught by the announcement of this year's Ig

I saw this morning that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. ... Check out the 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded last Thursday night, October 4, at the 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. Here are some of my favorites from the list. ...

Scott Brown Photo Gallery: What's Wrong with This Picture? TeaParty Boston Haiti ... The Annals of Improbable Research awarded the 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes Thursday evening. ...

And the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine goes to...the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where researchers revealed an unusual wrinkle in the placebo effect.

Handed out in the weeks before the Nobel Prizes, the 2009 Ig Nobel ceremony took place at Harvard University on October 1, during which each recipient received his or her prize from a genuine Nobel laureate. Here's a list of this year's winner: ...

Taiwanese inventor Hsieh Kuo-Cheng wins Ig Nobel Prize for Bank Security Device ... prize, even after a six-month search in Taiwan. However, in a twist of fate, worthy of the Ig Nobels, Hsieh, ...

Ivan Schwab, of the University of California, Davis, has joined the pantheon of scientists whose research has been deemed quirky enough to win an Ig Nobel an alternative to the genuine Nobel prizes. ...

A community website where London researchers can gather, meet and talk about issues that matter to them. Includes London news, events and jobs. From the publishers of Nature. ... Ig Nobel prizes, famously, are awarded for research that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. ...

of Ig Nobels, awarded annually by the humour magazine, the Annals of ... Other 2002 Ig Nobel awards included the Peace prize to the developers of an ...

Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop ... While respectable folks are in Sweden, attending the real thing, I'm here at Harvard for the low-rent alternative: the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. ...

high-pitched hum on Thursday won IgNobel prizes -- the humorous counterpart to this week's Nobel prizes. Other winning research included a U.S. and Israeli team's discovery that. hiccups could be cured with a finger up the rectum and a study into why ...

The Ig Nobel Prize Laureates for 2009 have been announced and they are as 'crazy' as they have always been. ... The Ig Nobel Prizes are alternative Nobel prizes which have been handed out since 1991 by the scientific comedy magazine Annals of Improbable Research ...

as a face mask won an Ig Nobel Prize. Still, this is not at all improbable research, so I'm wondering if it was indeed a legitimate contender. ... Read about more improbable research at http://improbable.com/ig/winners ...

The lg Nobel prize for quirky, funny and sometimes legitimate scientific achievements is a parody of the Nobel prizes awarding people for scientific inventions that ?first make people laugh, and then make them think.

Results from the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony are in. Winners this year include The Effect of Country Music on Suicide, Coordination Modes in the

The Ig Nobel Prizes, the Nobel Prize of all things funny are streaming live now. ... Sigh-- Joi Ito watched the Ig Nobels, but I couldn't get the webcast to play until now. ...

The IG Nobel Prizes were awarded by Improbable Research on October 4th for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK. Here are the 2007 winners: MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee...

as a face mask won an Ig Nobel Prize. Still, this is not at all improbable research, so I'm wondering if it was indeed a legitimate contender. ... Read about more improbable research at http://improbable.com/ig/winners ...

Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize were recently announced at a dinner held at Harvard. Some of the winners of this dubious prize. PHYSICS Arnd Leike of the

The 2008 Ig Nobel winners, awarded Thursday at Harvard University by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine: ... The lg Nobel prize for quirky, funny and sometimes legitimate scientific achievements is a parody of the Nobel prizes awarding people for scientific inventions that 'first make people laugh, ...