A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work. Here’s an inside look at how winners feel about this sometimes unwanted ‘honour’.
  • acockworkorange
    4·
    2 months ago

    Cool! I always wanted to know how it was viewed by those who receive it.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 months ago

    She won for “amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who wake up early in the morning”.

    Ouch.

  • MBM@lemmings.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    It’s funny how there’s this recurring theme of “should I accept this?” I wonder how many people rejected the prize