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Ig Nobel roadshow comes to D.C.

February 19, 2011 | Author: Peggy Mihelich, AAAS MemberCentral Program Director

The editors of The "Annals of Improbable Research" who put together the Ig Nobel Prizes once a year, brought their brand of science humor to the Annual Meeting Saturday night.The "Annals of Improbable Research" (also known as AIR) is a magazine about research that makes people laugh and then think. Once a year the humor magazine hands out Ig Nobel prizes, a parody of the Noble Prizes, for unusual or trivial "achievements" in scientific research. Watch highlights from their presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Saturday night.