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Marc Abrahams, wearing a torn hat and holding a pot labeled 'Ig Nobel Awards,' addresses the crowd at the start of the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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Marc Abrahams, wearing a torn hat and holding a pot labeled 'Ig Nobel Awards,' addresses the crowd at the start of the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Mathematician and editor Marc Abrahams emceeing the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony

The award honors unusual scientific achievements that “make people LAUGH, then THINK.”

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