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Most people have heard of the Nobel Prizes. Some of the most talented people
in the world receive these prizes, which honour great achievements in medicine,
chemistry, and other fields. But not many people have heard of the Ig Nobel
Prizes. The name is a pun on the word “ignoble.” These prizes are given to
people who do very strange work and whose studies might even be called a little
goofy. The prizes were first given out in 1991, and they get more popular every
year.
All the prize winners were serious about their work when they did it. It’s
just that the subjects they studied were a little odd. For example, one prize went
to two scientists in Norway who discovered that sour cream makes leeches
hungry. Another scientist studied toast because he wanted to know if it always
lands butter side down when you drop it. Another prize went to the country of
Liechtenstein for offering to rent the entire country out for weddings!
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is held at Harvard University in
Massachusetts every October. Sometimes the people who receive the prizes
aren’t too happy about it, but usually they are good sports. Often they have to
travel a very long way to get their prizes. When they receive them, they give a
speech, but they can only speak for one minute. If they talk longer than that,
they are booed.
The Ig Nobel Prizes are kind of silly, but they have a somewhat serious
goal of trying to encourage real science. Above all, they prove that science can
be fun. One winner came up with a new way for men to comb their hair.
Another one studied how tadpoles taste when you eat them. No matter what the
subject, these prizes show the lighter side of science.
The second paragraph mentions leeches. How can you tell from the paragraph
that a leech is a kind of animal instead of a rock?
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