This is Science Friday. I'm Iroflato. We hope you've had a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving,

and we're glad you're with us today because here at Science Friday, you know the day after

Thanksgiving is our own kind of holiday tradition, highlights from the year's Ig Nobel Award

ceremony. Now, the awards are handed out each year by the editors of the Science Humor magazine,

the Annals of Improbable Research, for work in science that first makes you laugh and then makes

you think. It's stuff that might make you say, hmm, I wonder, especially late at night after

a few fine beverages. This year's celebration is the 28th first annual awards.

This year's ceremonies featured a mini opera about building, breaking, and trying to mend

a broken heart, and prizes handed out by genuine regular Nobel laureates.

Just to explain a few things, there are a few traditions at the ceremonies,

like a massive throwing of paper airplanes, which are then swept up by genuine Nobel laureates.

There's a V-chip monitor who will sound his alarm if things threatened to get too raunchy,

and then there's Miss Sweetie Poo,

a little girl who starts to whine

whenever the speakers go on too long.

I'm sure we'll hear some of her.

The theme for this year was the heart.

You'll hear the audience cheer

whenever that word is mentioned

and special lectures on cardiology

and other heart-related topics.

So if that all makes your heartbeat a little faster, you should grab a comfy chair and let

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