At The Ig Nobel Prize Awards, Science Meets Silliness

Christian Science Monitor | Science, Christian Science Monitor: Science
Fri, 09/14/2018 - 2:48pm

An annual tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony at Harvard highlights the importance of play, lateral thinking, and outright frivolity in the natural sciences.

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