For those who are not aware: “The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology.”

The ceremony itself: https://improbable.com/the-35th-first-annual-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony/

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    PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY]
    Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.

    Mais bien sûr!