Humanity's Weirdest Achievements 🏆 The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

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🏆 It's the best of weird science, economics, medicine, and more in the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize awards, a satiric but real recognition of humanity's stranger achievements. Enjoy the spectacle of alligators on helium, drunk worms, international levels of doorbell ditching, and more.

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🗓 Itinerary
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00:00 What is the Ig Nobel Prize?
00:55 Acoustics Award: Alligators on helium
01:58 Psychology Award: Narcissists and their big eyebrows
03:05 Peace Award: India and Pakistan in an epic game of doorbell ditching
03:51 Physics Award: Vibrating drunk earth worms
05:19 Economics Award: Income inequality and the frequency of kissing
07:03 Management Award: Hitmen that can't hit
07:49 Entomology Award: Bug scientists discriminate against arachnids
08:02 Medicine Award: Misophonia, or why you want to punch people when you hear them chew
08:38 Medical Education Award: Who gets listened to when a mystery flu appears
09:01 Materials Science Award: You can't make a knife from frozen poo
10:27 A bit more about the Ig Nobel Prize and the ceremony

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🎵 Music (all licensed through Epidemic Sound)
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Background music: Waiting for Summer by Matt Large
Intro and outro music: Eastern Shades by Matt Large

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🎨 Resources
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Select images and other content licensed through Envato Elements, Pexels, and Pixabay. Memes are... well, memes.

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❤️ Special Thanks
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Big thanks to the BBC for this list and Improbable Research for the event from which to make content. This video would be quite literally nowhere without it.

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