Title:
Ig Nobel Prizes reward research on helium-huffing alligators and knives made of feces
Author:
Rasha Arid
Published:
Science, 18 September 2020
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/ig-nobel-prizes-reward-research-helium-huffing-alligators-and-knives-made-feces
From the article:
The Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual event celebrating quirky, comical discoveries, carried on despite the pandemic in a virtual ceremony riddled with bugs—and bug jokes. The Annals of Improbable Research, the science humor magazine that hosts the event, selected bugs as the theme for the 30th annual event, although the winning studies spanned an array of icky, wondrous, and unconventional research. The ceremony took place entirely online for the first time with a series of prerecorded speeches, musical numbers, and lightning-speed lectures.
This year's prize in entomology went to an investigation of why so many insect researchers are themselves fearful of spiders.