The Ig Nobel Prizes honor things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. At the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, ten new prizes were awarded.
Two days later, most of the winners gathered, at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to ask each other questions. This was the 2024 Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event.
The day had three sessions, each with three winners. This video shows the third of those sessions.
The people and topics you will see here:
- Physiology prize: Anal breathing in mammals (Ryo Okabe)
- Medicine prize: Efficacy of fake medicine with painful side-effects (Lieven Schenk)
- Botany prize: Real plants that imitate plastic plants (Felipe Yamashita)
Introductory remarks & discussion host: Kees Moeliker (Ig Nobel Laureate of 2003)
Bananas: Becky Moon, Kiyoshi Furusawa, and Pooja Usgaoncar