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2008 Ig Nobel Prizes, and Comment(s) o’ the Week!

As those of you who follow me on Twitter know, last night I attended the Ig Nobel awards, hosted by previous Boston Skeptics in the Pub speaker Marc Abrahams. As always, it was full of unabashed nerdiness, paper airplanes, actual Nobel laureates (Mandelbrot!), operatic interludes, and a goofy theme: this year was redundancy. Yes, the theme was redundancy. The list…