'Lots of important things are funny'
Clip: 10/5/2013 | 2m 21s
Interview with the founder of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Marc Abrahams.
"Lots of important things are funny." So says the founder of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, Marc Abrahams. Abrahams is the editor and co-founder of the magazine, The Annals of Improbable Research and a columnist for The Guardian. The prize honors achievements that "make you laugh, then make you think".
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'Lots of important things are funny'
Clip: 10/5/2013 | 2m 21s
"Lots of important things are funny." So says the founder of the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, Marc Abrahams. Abrahams is the editor and co-founder of the magazine, The Annals of Improbable Research and a columnist for The Guardian. The prize honors achievements that "make you laugh, then make you think".
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