2024 Ig Nobels
A few of the winner citations:
Peace Prize
“for experiments to see the feasibility of housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide the flight paths of the missiles.”
Anatomy Prize
“for studying whether the hair on the heads of most people in the Northern Hemisphere swirls in the same direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise?) as hair on the heads of most people in the Southern Hemisphere.”
Medicine Prize
“for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side effects can be more effective than fake medicine that does not cause painful side effects.”
Physiology Prize
“for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus.”
Biology Prize
“for exploding a paper bag next to a cat standing on the back of a cow to explore how and when cows spew their milk.”