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For our 2nd anniversary and our 50th episode (which it definitely is, don't check) we cooperatively tackled a topic folks have been asking us to do for ages: The Ig Nobel Prize!Check out our new merch! Hats! Posters! Mugs!Images and Videos we talk about:The Levitating Frog VideoThe Best of Miss Sweetie PooOcean Mixing Anchovy DiagramThe Grabbing Tentacle Robot VideoNecrobotic Spider DiagramNecrobotic Spider VideoThe Juke 8Daisuke Practicing his SpeechJoin our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:08:18) The Ig Nobel Prize(00:45:00) The 2023 Ig Nobel Winners(01:28:36) The Ig Nobel Peace Prize(01:59:09) OutroWe also learn about: Tom does an evil scientist laugh at Atto Seconds, Ella watch hours of Ig ceremonies, honoring achievements that make people laugh then think, the rotating category, six people have turned down the Nobel, comedy? with a question mark? trying to purposefully win an Ig is like recreating The Room, Limburger cheese, Andre Geim loves his Ig as much as his Nobel, “if people don’t have a very good sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists either”, Roy Glauber the keeper of the broom ALSO WON A NOBEL, “all they wanted to ask about was that damn broom”, the 24/7 Lectures, Mandelbrot goading miss sweetie poo, Ella’s Favorite Ig-ventions, partially unboiling an egg on stage, Chernobyl Bra Face Masks, that laughing and crying human emotion, cadaver nose hairs with surprisingly few nose hair variations, we all stan replication, Tom’s dad was robbed of the Ig, boring teachers, backwards speakers, maybe their neurons work backwards, the taste of rocks, the trick condition, electric taste, sexism in the stanford toilet, statistically significant anchovy boning affecting the water column, the fish kama sutra, how can i turn that dead spider into a robot? necrobotics is surprisingly easy, anti peace prizes, Pauling’s Nobel burn on Teller, Tom gets recognized, Lal Bihari’s schemes to become undead, “Lal bihari died in 1976 but he is feeling much better”, MAMAAAA OOOoooOOOH, sweet caroline, working as a waitress, karaoke means empty orchestra, Shigeichi Negishi’s first machine, Inoue’s Juke 8 origin story, Inoue is up there with Jonas Salk for not patenting Karaoke, Inoue’s Ig Nobel standing ovation, I’m not going to cry, I just started crying what the fuck, don't tell Ella but Toms my favorite, sometimes three ding dongs can make a podcastSources:About the Ig NobelsMarc Abrahams articlesAndrew GeimLimburger CheeseKeeper of the BroomMiss Sweetie PooBest of Miss Sweetie PooWired Article: A Gala for Weird ScienceMark Hosteetler2019 Awards - Very Fun Watch2015 Awards - Even more Fun24/7 LecturesPast winnersMichigan Driving LawThe BlasterBra Gas Mask---Nose HairsCrowd Effects of Looking UpBored Students and TeachersArs Technica on the IgsBrain Patterns of Speaking BackwardsEating FossilsJamais Vu and Semantic SatiationElectric ChopsticksThe Stanford ToiletOcean Mixing from Spawning FishNecrobotic Spider Grippers---Marc Abrahams Nobel Thoughts Interview with Linus PaulingStanley Cohen Nobel Thoughts InterviewNYTimes on Lal BihariLal Bihari's Ig Nobel CeremonyMatt Alt on Shigeichi Negishi's First Karaoke Machine for KotakuDaisuke Inoue's Story told for Topic MagazineTime Magazine on Daisuke InoueDaisuke Inoue's Ig Nobel Ceremony