Well, Approximately Other Year's Ig Nobel Prize Awards Are Inwards The Tin In Addition To The Winners Are...

"The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar." 

—Nature

From Harvard's ain Improbable Research.
First up, this year's presenters:

The winners volition physically have their prizes, together with a handshake, from genuine, truly bemused Nobel laureates:

• Eric Maskin  (economics, 2007)
• Wolfgang Ketterle  (physics, 2001)
• Oliver Hart  (economics, 2016)
• Michael Rosbash  (physiology or medicine, 2017)
• Roy Glauber  (physics, 2005)
• Marty Chalfie (chemistry, 2008)
• Jerome Friedman  (physics, 1990)
• And mayhap others

And this year's winners:

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 13, 2018, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was webcast.

MEDICINE PRIZE [USA] — Marc Mitchell together with David Wartinger, for using roller coaster rides to endeavor to hasten the passage of kidney stones.
REFERENCE: "Validation of a Functional Pyelocalyceal Renal Model for the Evaluation of Renal Calculi Passage While Riding a Roller Coaster," Marc A. Mitchell, David D. Wartinger, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, vol. 116, Oct 2016, pp. 647-652.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Dave Wartinger

ANTHROPOLOGY PRIZE [SWEDEN, ROMANIA, DENMARK, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, UK, INDONESIA, ITALY] — Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, together with Elainie Madsen, for collecting evidence, inward a zoo, that chimpanzees copy humans almost every bit often, together with almost every bit well, every bit humans copy chimpanzees.
REFERENCE: "Spontaneous Cross-Species Imitation inward Interaction Between Chimpanzees together with Zoo Visitors," Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, together with Elainie Madsen, Primates, vol. 59, no. 1, Jan 2018, pp 19–29.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc

BIOLOGY PRIZE [SWEDEN, COLOMBIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND] — Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, together with Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that vino experts tin reliably identify, past times smell, the presence of a unmarried wing inward a drinking glass of wine.
REFERENCE: "The Scent of the Fly," Paul G. Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika A. Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, together with Peter Witzgall, bioRxiv, no. 20637, 2017.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Peter Witzgall

CHEMISTRY PRIZE [PORTUGAL] — Paula Romão, Adília Alarcão together with the belatedly César Viana, for measuring the marker to which human saliva is a goodness cleaning agent for muddied surfaces.
REFERENCE: "Human Saliva every bit a Cleaning Agent for Dirty Surfaces," past times Paula M. S. Romão, Adília M. Alarcão together with César A.N. Viana, Studies inward Conservation, vol. 35, 1990, pp. 153-155.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: The winners delivered their credence speech communication via recorded video.

MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE [JAPAN] — Akira Horiuchi, for the medical study "Colonoscopy inward the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy."
REFERENCE: "Colonoscopy inward the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy past times Using a Small-Caliber, Variable-Stiffness Colonoscope," Akira Horiuchi together with Yoshiko Nakayama, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, vol. 63, No. 1, 2006, pp. 119-20.
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Akira Horiuchi

LITERATURE PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, EL SALVADOR, UK] — Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic together with M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who role complicated products produce non read the pedagogy manual.
REFERENCE: "Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation together with Excess Features inward Consumer Products," Alethea L. Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic together with M. Helen Thompson, Interacting With Computers, vol. 28, no. 1, 2014, pp. 27-46.
WHO PLANS TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY: Thea Blackler....

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And speaking of Econ, here's Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman at 2009's ceremony wearing a bra every bit an emergency facemask:

Ig Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Elena Bodnar demonstrates her invention 

(a brassiere that tin chop-chop convert into a pair of protective confront masks) 

assisted past times Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle (left), Orhan Pamuk, and

 Paul Krugman (right). Photo credit: Alexey Eliseev, 2009 Ig Nobel Ceremony

And hither he is every bit business office of the largest grouping of Laureates to withdraw a sword from someone's throat:

The Nobel Laureates involved:
Rich Roberts - Nobel Prize inward Physiology/Medicine, 1993
Wolfgang Ketterle - Nobel Prize inward Physics, 2001
Dudley Herschbach - Nobel Prize inward Chemistry, 1986
Paul Krugman - Nobel Prize inward Economics, 2008
Roy Glauber - Nobel Prize inward Physics, 2005
Frank Wilczek - Nobel Prize inward Physics, 2004
Martin Chalfie - Nobel Prize inward Chemistry, 2008
William Lipscomb - Nobel Prize inward Chemistry, 1976

CRITERIA TO BEAT RECORD:
- sword swallower must live on a legitimate sword swallower officially verified together with recognized past times the Sword Swallowers Association International
- sword must live on a enterprise steel non-retractable sword amongst a blade at to the lowest degree fifteen inches inward length
- Nobel Laureates must live on recognized bonafide Nobel Laureates who lead keep really been awarded an official Nobel Prize.

I'm outset to suspect he is something of a ham.
In add-on at that spot is video of the awards together with their version of TED Talks, the Ig Informal Lectures upwards the river at MIT.

There are likewise the 24/7 Lectures:

Each yr at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, nosotros invite some of the world's top thinkers to enjoin us what they are thinking about.

            Each 24/7 Lecturer explains their topic twice:
                  First, a complete, technical description inward 24 seconds
                  Then, a clear summary that anyone tin empathize inward 7 words

But I didn't run across this years contributions. Here are a duet from the 2017 vintage:

Topic:  Bots

Lecturer:  Aleksandra Przegalinska    (Professor of Artifical Intelligence together with the Philosophy of Technology at Kozminski University In Poland, together with a researcher at MIT)

In 24 Seconds:  "We presented a study of human-bot interaction based on an experiment that consisted of ii parts: measuring of psychophysiological reactions to chatbot users together with a detailed questionnaire that focused on assessing willingness to verbalize to a robot or chatbot. Our special focus was on the "Uncanny Valley" effect, together with inward the experiment, nosotros juxtaposed the EDA channel amongst a digital input channel, together with the information indicated a really potent positive correlation betwixt the uncanny valley final result together with negative behavior on evaluation. " [Time called past times the Referee]

In vii Words:  "Robots that verbalize are perceived every bit stupid"

[Actual Number of Words Used:  7]

When inward the ceremony video:  0:38:00

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Topic:  Uncertainty

Lecturer:  Eric Maskin    (Nobel Laureate together with Professor of Economics at Harvard University)

In 24 Seconds:  "Uncertainty is the pump of economical life. What produce oilmen, poker players, together with bond traders lead keep inward common? Oilmen drill their wells, poker players await for tells, together with traders fourth dimension their sells inward company to exploit other people's uncertainty. H5N1 political party who does this good volition earn a profit. Then the other parties volition yell if they desire to." [Within the fourth dimension limit]

In vii Words:  "Uncertainty is the alone certainly affair - perhaps"

[Actual Number of Words Used:  7]

When inward the ceremony video:  0:39:23

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