In case you were wondering, it turns out that chimpanzees can, in fact, identify one another when viewing pictures of their butts.
Oh, and the Eiffel Tower
apparently seems smaller when you lean to your left.
These are just two of the
startling conclusions of researchers honored at this year's Ig Nobel Awards
held last week, which honor improbable research around the world.
The awards, held each year at
Harvard University 's Sanders Theatre, are
intended to make people first laugh, then think.
They aim to honor the imagination
and build interest in science, medicine
and technology.
Recipients of the awards travel
to the ceremony at their own expense and receive the prizes from "genuinely
bemused genuine Nobel laureates," says the awards' website.
And it is not just people who
are honored. The U.S. Government General Accountability Office this year won
the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature, "for issuing a report about reports
about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report
about reports about reports."
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