Ig Nobel prize 2007Photograph: Charles Krupa/APDan Meyer demonstrates sword swallowing after he and radiologist Brian Witcombe were awarded a prize for their report Sword Swallowing and its Side EffectsPhotograph: Stan Honda/AFPIg Nobel prize 2007Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP
Brian Wansink of Cornell University demonstrates his Ig Nobel-winning bottomless bowl of soupPhotograph: Stan Honda/AFPJohanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk from Eindhoven University of Technology accepts her prize, awarded for completing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi commonly found in people's bedsPhotograph: Stan Honda/AFPReal Nobel laureates Craig Mello (l), Roy Glauber (c) and Dudley Herschbach sample some vanilla ice-cream flavoured with an extract of cow dung. Mayu Yamamoto from the International Medical Centre of Japan was awarded a prize for her work on the extractPhotograph: Stan Honda/AFPA moment of science: Chemists Joost Bonsen (l) and Daniel Roseberg perform during the ceremonyPhotograph: Stan Honda/AFPReal Nobel Laureate Dudley Hershbach gives a nano-lecture during the ceremonyPhotograph: Stan Honda/AFP
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