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MISSION IMPROBABLE

In what is now an annual tradition, the Annals of Improbable Research have announced their 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes, intended to celebrate science that makes people laugh, then think, presented by real Nobel laureates at a ceremony that was once again online due to the continuing Covid restrictions in the US.

Probably the most infamous Ig Nobel

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