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Published online 7 October 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051003-13
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Nobel Laureates show their lighter side
Distinguished scientists gather in Boston for silliness awards.
Unlike other days at Harvard University, the first Thursday in October is a time when levity overtakes gravity, irreverence prevails over reason, and the flight of paper airplanes is actively encouraged. It is time, in other words, for the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, the fifteenth of which was held last night before a boisterous crowd in Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
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