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We Have Concerns

And the Winners Are...

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It's that time of year again! The winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced and Anthony and Jeff couldn't be more excited. Every year, the fine folks at Improbable Research award Ig Nobel Prizes to scientists and researchers who have advanced our understanding of the world in ways that border on the unnecessary. They are fun, funny, and fascinating. The journal Nature has said “The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar” and you can tune in this week and find out why.

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0:00.0

I'm not a man.

0:13.6

Consider, think about this. Take a regular man.

0:17.6

At an ex. Now you fucking got something. This is we have concerns.

0:23.2

Hi Jeff Canada. Hi Anthony Carbony. Hello, concerned citizens. Jeff,

0:28.8

it's the most wonderful time of the year. Oh, I love this time of the year. I get all my decorations

0:35.1

out. I get I get there's a different spirit. You know, I think there's a twinkle in everybody's eye.

0:43.2

There's a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a pep in their step a pep in their step a pep in their

0:49.2

step and a pip a p a p a p a p a p as well. They're tipping their hats to one another. It's everybody

0:55.8

wants to be to be giving and there's just a feeling of warmth and joy because the igno

1:01.6

bell prizes have been announced. We love the igno bell prizes. Oh, yeah, it's a special time.

1:09.1

It's a special time we look forward to on this very science podcast every year where we get to

1:14.5

marvel at the at the genius and the other side of genius of people. That's right. This is

1:24.4

um, this is the yearly awards that that honor the science that is maybe the silliest or seems

1:34.3

the least useful from the outside. These are these are people whose ideas cannot be contained

1:41.6

within the confines of useful. You know, uh, it is of course put on by, uh, the imp, by the

1:49.1

improbable research institute. Uh, we love them. They make a they make a great magazine. They,

1:55.2

they report on this stuff all year round, but this is their big time of the year. And I wanted to

2:00.2

go through and talk about some of the big winners from this year, Jeff, because they are

2:07.2

perfect. Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait. I haven't looked at any of these. It's like unwrapping a gift.

2:13.6

It's it's a special time. It's the igno bell prizes. It's the igno bell prizes, baby. And I want

2:18.6

to start off with one, Jeff, that is going to be familiar to you. This is an old friend, buddy.

2:25.0

This is an old friend. Do you remember? Does this name ring a bell to you? David Carrier,

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