It's one of the annual traditions of science, the Ig Nobel Prizes.

If you didn't win an Ig Nobel Prize this year,

and especially if you did, better luck next year.

A salute to unusual science. Yeah, today's Black Friday, but skip the shopping trip.

It's also Science Friday. I'm Cyfry producer Charles Barkquist.

Each fall, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded.

Prizes for science that first makes you laugh, but then makes you think.

The prizes are in their 33rd year, and in our own holiday tradition, we play highlights

from the ceremony on the day after Thanksgiving.

So grab a slice of leftover pie if you have some,

and join Ira and me for a look at this year's awards,

including one winner we spoke with earlier in the year for his research.

Okay, tell us are things back to post-Covid normal yet or at least as normal as they can be for

the Yigs?

Not exactly. So you've been to the ceremony in person.

Yes. Pre- Pandemic, they would hand out the prizes, big ceremony,

packed theater on the Harvard campus. There was music, flying paper airplanes, costumes the whole bit, right?

This year it was virtual once more.

The ringleader of the ceremony, Mark Abrams, says, fingers crossed, they're hoping that they'll be back in the theater

again next year but this year's event was a big zoom call and webcast but the winners were

still awarded their prizes by real Nobel laureates.

Uh-huh, right, okay, remind us what you have to do to earn this honor.

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