Humour · 04. December 2020
By Leone Seidel: An Ig Nobel Prize is a prize awarded to the person who did the least useful experiment in a field. There’s an Ig Nobel acoustics prize, an Ig Nobel psychology prize, etc. These ideas are quite interesting and will induce laughter. For example, the 2020 Ig Nobel physics prize was for “Determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.” Citation, Improbable Research. The Ig Nobel Prize originated...