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2013 Ig Nobel Prize winners: from opera-loving mice to stargazing dung beetles

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Jon Gold
Sep 13, 2013

The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes – handed out for questionable, bizarre and otherwise anomalous contributions to the march of science – were awarded Thursday night at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater. Here are the winners.

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