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You can check the entire list here: 2004 Ig Noble Awards

A few highlights are the effects of country music on suicide, the Vatican outsourcing prayers to India, and that herrings apparently communicate by farting.

The same page lists all of the winners back to 1991. People get paid for researching some strange and amusing things.

 

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PEACE
Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Daisuke Inoue.

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