FEEDBACK’S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out at a
ceremony at Harvard University’s hallowed Sanders Theater last week. Sponsored
by the Annals of Improbable Research, they honour achievements that
cannot or should not be reproduced.
Feedback particularly likes them because the achievements they represent tend
to be so much easier to understand than those recognised by the real Nobel
prizes. We are also pleased to report that many of them have already been
honoured by an appearance in the pages of Â鶹´«Ã½.
The Ig Nobel for biology went to Pek van Andel, a physiologist at the…
