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“Some people’s own incompetence somehow gives them a stupid sense that anything they do is clever” (sorry, not sure it ended like that)
#IgNobel prize on the Donning-Kruger effect

Another win for the #fedi: the #ignobel had nowhere near this presence in the bad old place.

We value friends who are vicious to people we dislike - main finding of the
#IgNobel Peace Prize

Next year’s awards ceremony will take place in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium!
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Winners, Nobel laureates and 24/7 lecturers gathering on stage for a Pointless Photo Opportunity 😁
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7-word summary: “Same molecule, opposite handedness, profoundly different consequences!”
(On thalidomide)
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Fabulous: the Physics prize goes to a team who have - I think - designed the perfect urinal to avoid splashing, no matter the pressure or level of drunkenness (?!)
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Brazilian winner of the Biology award has tested what makes a venomous snake bite by repeatedly stepping (gently!) on such snakes at various places in their body and at various times of day. “Who would be stupid and brave enough to do this?? Well … me!”
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RE: #ignobel

Brilliant: 24/7 lectures - 24 seconds and then just seven words! (Elevator pitches seem slooow in comparison)
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The economics (?) team almost running out of time, at which point three banana-costumed people appear to stop them.
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Quite moving to hear this Japanese researcher accepting an award on behalf of his late colleague, whose wife told him to go the Zürich 😭
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Intermission to celebrate the team researching fungi. Singer in beautiful yellow dress performs an impressive operatic song about how little we ignorants know about fungi, mushrooms, mold and yeeeee-east!
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Edit: correction on who performed the song, which cannot have been a member of the research team itself (since she sang another song later—but who knows? Maybe she is a w…