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welcome to the cotkey ride home for friday September 18th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced last night.

Some people are trying to make CD players a thing again.

How algorithms can detect our mood based on what we write online, and

the surprising connection between frozen and arrested development. Here are some of the cool

things from the news today. The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced last night. The Ig Nobel Prizes go to achievements that, quote,

first make people laugh, then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual,

honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology."

End quote.

A common misconception about the Ig Nobel Prizes is that they're like the Razies, you know,

making fun of things for being bad.

But as they say on their website, quote, we are honoring achievements that make people laugh

and then think.

Good achievements can also be odd, funny, and even absurd.

So can bad achievements.

A lot of good science gets attacked because of its absurdity,

and a lot of bad science gets revered despite its absurdity.

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