An Ig Nobel award is presented during a ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Thursday Oct. 4, 2007. The annual no-rules awards ceremony, where flying paper airplanes and interrupting honored speakers are commonplace, pokes fun at bizarre and improbable achievements in real-life scientific research. The Ig Nobel is an annual award given at Harvard University by Annals of Improbable Research magazine for weird, wacky and sometimes worthless scientific research. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)