Ig Nobel Prizes

Curiosity as a public good

India has won 22 Ig Nobel prizes to date. These awards, given annually at Harvard University by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, honour studies that "first make people laugh, and then make them think" — a description that can suggest the prizes are little more than jokes whereas

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The not-so-obvious obvious

If your job requires you to pore through a dozen or two scientific papers every month – as mine does – you'll start to notice a few every now and then couching a somewhat well-known fact in study-speak. I don't mean scientific-speak, largely because there's nothing