In Photos: The Science and Silliness of the 2017 Ig Nobels

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Goodbye, goodbye

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Closing the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was a heartfelt and extremely brief farewell address by Jean Berko Gleason, a professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University, who delivered the equally pithy "Welcome Welcome" speech at the evening's start.

Mindy Weisberger
Mindy Weisberger
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Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former Live Science channel editor and senior writer. She has reported on general science, covering climate change, paleontology, biology and space. Mindy studied film at Columbia University; prior to Live Science she produced, wrote and directed media for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science centers worldwide, earning awards such as the CINE Golden Eagle and the Communicator Award of Excellence. Her writing has also appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post and How It Works Magazine.  Her book "Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind Control" will be published in spring 2025 by Johns Hopkins University Press.