Traditions followed during the annual award ceremony of the Ig Nobel Prize include audiences showering winners with paper airplanes, an eight-year-old “Miss Sweetie Poo” enforcing a strict 60-second time limit on acceptance speeches, 24/7 lectures (which summarize complex topics in 24 seconds and 7 words), and a science-themed mini-opera. The awardees receive their honor from Nobel laureates invited to the ceremony. The physical prize comprises an award certificate signed by the attending Nobel laureates, a trophy of variable design made from cheap materials, and usually oddities such as an obsolete Zimbabwean $10 trillion banknote (once worth about U.S. $0.04).
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