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Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

Presented by Annals of Improbable Research
Location: Sanders Theatre
Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Tickets on Sale: 7/31/2009

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Pre-ceremony Risk Cabaret Concert (by the Penny-Wise Guys) begins at 7:15 pm.


The Nineteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony honors achievements that make people laugh, then think. The ten new winners will be revealed on stage. Genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates will hand them their the Prizes. This year's theme: RISK, with keynote speaker Benoit Mandelbrot, and premiere of the mini-opera "Big Bank Theory" (wherein stylish bankers in a swanky Wall Street bar explain the explosive rise and fall of big banking and big bankers). Also featured: the Win-a-Date-with-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest. Organized by the Annals of Improbable Research (www.improbable.com).
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