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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam.

And I'm Joe McCormick. Hey, it's our yearly Ignobels episode.

That's right, this is a tradition for us. These awards go out, generally what mid-to-late September.

We always come back and hit them in early November after we're done with all of our

Halloween content. And it's just a great way to dive back in to a serious scientific study.

And I'm not joking because a granted, these are awards that celebrate and highlight

studies that may seem a bit absurd and a bit comical. But generally speaking, we're dealing with

actual research that doesn't, at least in some way, expand our scientific knowledge of the world.

Right, even if it's funny, you can usually learn something interesting from it.

Right. So the basics on the Ignobel, obviously it's a play on the Nobel Prize.

These have been awarded each year since 1991 by the annals of improbable research, which is a

publication that prides itself on seeking out the absurd and the humorous and the whimsical

within the realms of legitimate scientific research. The purpose of the award, according to the

editors, is to quote, to honor achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think.

Furthermore, they stress that the 10 prizes aren't necessarily meant to pass judgment on the winners.

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