The fun thing about our elders is that most of the time we ask them why they’re doing something, they’re very happy to tell us. But when the thing they’re doing is something that everyone associates with being old, they usually don’t. Or we don’t always ask them. We just assume this is just something they do “because they’re old.”

As we do every year, we once again present the winners of this year’s annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. This is a real ceremony, sort of like the Nobel Prizes, but whereas the Nobel prizes are for concepts like (this year, for example) quantum dots and attosecond pulses of light, the Ig Nobel Prizes are for things that