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U of T professor wins Ig Nobel Prize for ‘Jesus in Toast’ study at Harvard University

By media.utoronto.ca
Published On :: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:31:03 +0000

TORONTO, ON — University of Toronto professor Kang Lee has been awarded a 2014 Ig Nobel Prize for a study that found that the phenomenon of “face pareidolia”–where onlookers report seeing images of Jesus, Virgin Mary, or Elvis in objects such as toast, shrouds, and clouds–is normal and based on physical causes. Lee was the lead author of the study […]


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Anus-Breathing Animals and Pigeon-Guided Missiles: Ig Nobel Prizes Reward Unusual but Valuable Science

By www.smithsonianmag.com
Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:30:00 +0000

The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines


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Wombat cubic faeces mystery solved and recognised by Ig Nobel prize

By www.abc.net.au
Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:53:00 +1000

Wombat researchers at the University of Tasmania have won an Ig Nobel Prize for unexpectedly discovering the "quite incredible" reason the animal's scat is cubed.


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A new comic (in 2 languages) about Ig Nobel Prize winners

By www.improbable.com
Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 16:39:48 +0000

A new comic strip—in Russian and in English—about some of the curious characters who have won Ig Nobel Prizes. The series appears on Instagram.


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TreeHugger hero Thomas Thwaites wins an Ig Nobel Prize for being a goat

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:29:03 -0400

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass


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