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00:00Sending paper airplanes soaring onto stage like a group of unruly students, these scientists
00:07revived a tradition dear to this zany ceremony.
00:11Because of the ignobles, a contraction of ignoble and nobel, they don't take themselves
00:17too seriously.
00:18If you're wearing a hat, would you please remove it?
00:20This is an event to celebrate science and its sometimes wacky experiments.
00:25And prizes are awarded to researchers who tick two boxes.
00:29Every ignoble prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh and then makes
00:34them think.
00:36This year's winners include the scientists behind an experiment using pigeons to guide
00:41missiles.
00:43Or this team of researchers who conducted chromatography experiments, a biophysical
00:48technique to separate drunken earthworms from sober earthworms.
00:53And we can expect some serious practical applications.
00:57If you want to, for instance, make sure that the sperm is working well, is very active,
01:03you could use such techniques to sort the sperm that are very active from the ones that
01:08are non-active.
01:09Just a few weeks before the opening of the Nobel season, the 34th ignoble has invited
01:14only eminent scientists to present the prizes, including the real nobilists, Eric Maskin
01:20and Abhijit Banerjee.