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Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels

FILE - Audience members toss paper airplanes during the Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 12, 2019. The 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair because of the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) FILE - Shigeru Watanabe, of Japan, receives the Ig Nobel award in chemistry for estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old, Sept. 12, 2019, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. The 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair because of the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) Eric Martinez, a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds a Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. Martinez, who also has a law degree from Harvard University, shared the literature Ig Nobel with Francis Mollica and Edward Gibson for analyzing what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand. The 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair because of the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Master of Ceremonies Marc Abrahams poses with the 2022 Ig Nobel prize, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, at his office in Cambridge, Mass. The prize was emailed in advance to the winners with instructions for self-assembly. The annual prize ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair because of the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Abrahams also holds a Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill that is part of the prize presented to the winners. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels