What is the Ig Nobel Prize awarded for? The creator of the award, Marc Abrahams, answered this question this way: “The Ig Nobel Prize is not about the best and not about the worst. It’s about those things that make you laugh first and then think.” And it’s hard to disagree with him, because thanks to its laureates, we now have lactose-free milk, blue jelly and a device - a translator from dog language to human. We learned that music in elevators can cure colds, that an entire European country can be rented for a corporate party, and that in India there is an association of dead people who are fighting to be recognized as alive again and restored to their rights. The author of the popular science portal InScience.News, Yana Khlustova, will tell you about the most extraordinary discoveries and inventions. The publishing design is preserved in PDF A4 format.