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That moment when a Canadian TV News anchor discovered the Ig Nobel Prizes

carusoThis video shows the moment when Maralee Caruso, anchor of the six-o’clock news on CTV News in Winnipeg, discovered the Ig Nobel Prizes. Caruso reported on only one of the ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners: Thomas Thwaites, who shared this year’s biology prize, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the manner of, and spend time roaming hills in the company of, goats.

Caruso did not mention the two Ig Nobel Prizes that were awarded this year to Canadians.

A complete list of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners (who were introduced a few days ago at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, at Harvard University) is on the Ig Nobel winners section of this web site.

Thanks to Richard Baguley for bringing this to our attention.)

BONUS (related): “Waterloo study on BS wins Ig Nobel Peace Prize” reads a headline in the Globe & Mail.

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