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Video from Marc Abraham's Ig Nobel Improbable Research Show appearance at Beckman Institute on October 25, 2006. For more information on the Ig Nobel Prize, Marc Abrahams, and the Annals for Improbable Research, visit http://improbable.com.
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Ig Nobel Improbable Research Show Part Four
Beckman Researcher Daniel Simons, recipient of the 2004 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize. (The research videos are not included in this clip but can be viewed here).
(QuickTime 36 MB)
Ig Nobel Improbable Research Show Part Five
The Girls Next Door perform Part I of the mini-opera "Inertia Makes the World Go Around."
(QuickTime 10 MB)
Ig Nobel Improbable Research Show Part Six
Joe Futrelle presents his paper "The Mildly-Parallel Palmtop Array: A Breakthrough in Low-Performance Computer Networking"
(QuickTime 20 MB)