The Nobel's alter ego

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Mirjam Tuk, left, gives the acceptance speech after receiving the Ig Nobel prize in Medicine next to her colleague Luk Warlop during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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John Senders holds the Ig Nobel prize in public safety for his experiments in which a driver on a major highway repeatedly has a visor flapped down over his face, as a video showing his research plays behind him.

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Nobel laureates, from left, Rich Roberts (Medicine, 2005), Roy Glauber (Physics, 2005), Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry, 1986), Lou Ignaro (Medicine, 1998), Peter Diamond (Economics, 2010) and Eric Maskin (Economics, 2007) perform in a sing-along during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Mayor of Vilnius Arturas Zuokas, left, receives the Ig Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel Laureate Peter Diamond (Economics, 2010), right, for solving the problem of illegally parked cars by crushing them with an armoured vehicle.

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Nobel Laureate Rich Roberts (Medicine 1993), left, performs a song with Dr. Thomas Michel during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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Ig Nobel prize winners in Chemistry, from left, Junichi Murakami, Koichiro Mizoguchi, Hideaki Goto, and Yukinobu Tajimadu stand on stage during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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Karl Halvor Teigen walks on stage to receive his Ig Nobel prize in psychology trying to understand why people sigh.

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Winners of the Ig Nobel prize for medicine, from left, David Darby, Peter Synder and Robert Feldman give their acceptance speech after receiving an award for studying the effects of holding in urine.

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A 2011 Ig Nobel Prize is shown during the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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A chemist is reflected in a beaker after mixing chemicals that gave the beaker a reflective coating during a demonstration at the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, gives his acceptance speech after receiving the Ig Nobel Peace Prize during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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Karl Halvor Teigen (L) of the University of Oslo, receives a 2011 Ig Nobel prize, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh, during the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge. The annual prizes, meant to entertain and encourage scientific research, are awarded by the Journal of Improbable Research as a whimsical counterpart to the Nobel Prizes, which will be announced next week.

The Nobel's alter ego

Mirjam Tuk, left, gives the acceptance speech after receiving the Ig Nobel prize in Medicine next to her colleague Luk Warlop during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

John Senders holds the Ig Nobel prize in public safety for his experiments in which a driver on a major highway repeatedly has a visor flapped down over his face, as a video showing his research plays behind him.

Mayor of Vilnius Arturas Zuokas, left, receives the Ig Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel Laureate Peter Diamond (Economics, 2010), right, for solving the problem of illegally parked cars by crushing them with an armoured vehicle.

Nobel Laureate Rich Roberts (Medicine 1993), left, performs a song with Dr. Thomas Michel during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Ig Nobel prize winners in Chemistry, from left, Junichi Murakami, Koichiro Mizoguchi, Hideaki Goto, and Yukinobu Tajimadu stand on stage during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

Karl Halvor Teigen walks on stage to receive his Ig Nobel prize in psychology trying to understand why people sigh.

Winners of the Ig Nobel prize for medicine, from left, David Darby, Peter Synder and Robert Feldman give their acceptance speech after receiving an award for studying the effects of holding in urine.

A 2011 Ig Nobel Prize is shown during the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A chemist is reflected in a beaker after mixing chemicals that gave the beaker a reflective coating during a demonstration at the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, gives his acceptance speech after receiving the Ig Nobel Peace Prize during the 21st annual Ig Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge.

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