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This year's IgNobel Prize winners, as always, came up with ingenious ways to do really zany things. This year's winner in the physics category, for example, discovered that people who wear socks on the outsides of their shoes are less likely to fall while walking on ice. Another researcher earned the vaunted prize for his straight-to-DVD research on fruit bat fellatio. Perhaps the weirdest ...

The Nobel Prizes are always preceded by the Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor research that "makes people laugh and think." This year's Ig Nobel winners have turned tequila into diamonds, studied full versus empty beer-bottle-to-head injuries (turns out they both hurt), and even designed a bra that, during your average chemical warfare blitz, doubles as a pair of gas masks for you and a friend. Dr. ...