The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
Click here for this year's selection of strange, unusual and obscure research, featuring un-boiled eggs, kissing, chicken walks, speed-bumps and genital torture!
Ideas about Christopher Columbus' primacy, genetic inheritance, Maori "exploration", Amazonian forests' pristine nature and the structure of glass have all changed substantially since I was educated. I take a look at recent overhauls in these fields.
Click here for the story of how "true facts" can be retired.
Click here for a few words on the existence
of a centuries-long unbroken chain of culture not participated in, and hardly remembered by adults, which thrives mostly unremarked and unrecorded, amongst children.
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