Paper Airplane Throws

Announcement of the Ig Nobel Prizes

Awarding of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes

Closing Remarks

Ig Nobel Biology Prize

Presentation of the Broom

Act II of the mini-opera Creatures of Habit

Economics Prize

Acceptance Speech

Wombat Poo

Intro

Ig Nobel Laureate Cameos

Welcome Speech

Awarding of the Ig Nobel Acoustics Prize

Ig Nobel Physics Prize 2020

Act II of the mini-opera Dream Little Cockroach

Ig Nobel Peace Prize 2002

Act III: Dream, Little Cockroach

Acceptance speeches

Closing Remarks

Theatre Safety Announcement

Introduction

Awarding of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes

Ig Nobel Prize Announcement

Ig Nobel Peace Prize winners

The Economics Prize

Second Paper Airplane Deluge

Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winners

Ig Nobel Prize Winner Lecture

Closing Remarks

Ceremony sponsors

What do the winners get?

Ig Nobel Literature Prize Winners

Ig Nobel Prize in Biology

Engineering Prize Winners

Alcoholic beverage taken rectally

Paper Airplane Launch

First Ig Nobel Prize

Awardee speech

Closing Remarks by Harvard Radcliffe Society of Physics Students

Welcome Nobel Laureates

Awarding of the 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes

The Incompetence Opera

Ig Nobel Prize Winners from Previous Years

Act II of The Incompetence Opera

Win an Empty Box Contest

Official Audience Delegations

Q&A with the audience

Announcement of Saturday Lectures

Photo Opportunity

Ig® Nobel Prize Ceremony

The Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students

The first Paper Airplane Deluge

Welcome to the 23rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

ERIC MASKIN 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics

FRANK WILCZEK 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics

ROY GLAUBER 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics

JEROME FRIEDMAN 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Returning Ig® Nobel Prize-Winner

The second Paper Airplane Deluge

The traditional Ig Nobel "Welcome, Welcome" speech — delivered by KATHRYN GUNSCH, assistant director of the MIT Museum

First of the four discussion groups

CHRISTINE PHAM, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize — for using cadavers to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each of a person's two nostrils

CHRIS MOULIN, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Literature Prize— for studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times

BIEITO FERNÁNDEZ CASTRO, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Physics Prize — for measuring the extent to which ocean-water mixing is affected by the sexual activity of anchovies

First group discussion

Second of the four discussion groups

KATY TAM, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Education Prize — for methodically studying the boredom of teachers and students

ADOLFO GARCÍA, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Communication Prize — for studying the mental activities of people who are expert at speaking backward

Second group discussion

Third of the four discussion groups

TE FAYE YAP, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Mechanical Engineering Prize — for re-animating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools

HOMEI MIYASHITA, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize winner — for experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food

Third group discussion

Fourth of the four discussion groups

SEUNG-MIN PARK, 1 MIN INTRO, co-winner of the Ig Nobel Public Health Prize — for inventing the Stanford Toilet, a device that uses a variety of technologies — including a urinalysis dipstick test strip, a computer vision system for defecation analysis, an anal-print sensor paired with an identification camera, and a telecommunications link — to monitor and quickly analyze the substances that humans excrete

Fourth group discussion

Thank you

Pointless photo op

Group recitation of "The"

Ig Nobel Ceremony

Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip May, of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.

The Great Inertia Debates

Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed..