Tired of hearing about the Nobel Prizes?

Every morning lately, NPR has been leading off with the physicist or chemist or doctor to be awarded with the Nobel Prize for this or that. Fascinating stuff... But Saturday marked the awarding of this year's Ig Noble Awards.

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.

My favorite one was the study of why pregnant women don't tip over - I remember distinctly feeling as if that might just happen to me when I was hugely pregnant... Anyways, I thought it might be a nice bit of humor to break up a full week!