IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025
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·September 20, 2025belter
They should add Avi Loeb PhD powered obsession with the exploding traffic of alien probes crossing our Solar System....
Maybe the Galactic Council just opened a new discount shuttle route over Class -4b Civilizations areas like us: (Non-Fusion, Non-Warp and apparently Non-Skeptical...)
cs702
The winner for Psychology made me think, for a moment, about HN: "Telling people they are intelligent correlates with the feeling of narcissistic uniqueness: The influence of IQ feedback on temporary state narcissism," by Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles E. Gignac. Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028962... . The entire list is hilarious, and also makes you think. Go read the whole thing!
Esophagus4
Oh boy… this is going to be a tough pill for me to swallow…
firtoz
That's absolutely right!
readthenotes1
In your case, it's because you actually are smart
eulgro
I wonder if the guy ingesting Teflon to replace food heard about PFAS...?
The cacio e pepe paper posted here a couple of months ago won it in the category of physics: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/37/4/044122/3345324/Pha...