Canberra Times

Thursday, September 30, 1999
 

Gong Site
 
 
 
At about 10.30am tomorrow you can catch a live webcast of the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony from Harvard University (7.30pm Thursday, Boston time). The Ig Nobels are organised by the Annals of Improbable Research. Awards
are presented by real Nobel laureates.

   Previous winners include a team from Norway for the report The Effect of Ale,
Garlic and Sour Cream on the Appetite of Leeches and a US group which found that listening to muzak stimulates immunoglobulin A production in humans.
http://ignobel.org www.improbable.com