This is Science Friday. I'm Ira Flato. We do hope you had a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving.

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 Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony. 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 that 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 29th first annual awards.

This year's ceremonies featured a mini opera about habits,

the good, the bad, and the ugly,

and prizes handed out by genuine regular Nobel laureates.

Just to explain a few things.

There are a few traditions at the ceremonies,

like the welcome, welcome, and goodbye, goodbye speeches.

There's an official who will sound an alarm

if things threaten to, how shall I say, get too raunchy.

And then there's Miss Sweetie Poo,

a little girl who starts to whine whenever the speakers go on too long.

Sometimes the speakers try to bribe her, but she always wins in the end.

The theme for this year was Habits.

You'll hear the audience cheer whenever that word is mentioned.

So here's our post- Thanksgiving habit.

See what I did there?

As we take you back to earlier this year at Harvard Sanders Theater,

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