Everyone loves the Ig Nobel prizes. Despite their irreverent, mocking and humorous nature, they actually do a service to science by showing that  scientists can laugh at themselves. But is it normal for them to be more important than the Nobels?

Scientists vs. Exxon
(09/10/2006)

When scientists protest, it often goes unnoticed. But when the world’s oldest science association—Britain’s Royal Society, founded 346 years ago—attacks the world’s richest company—oil producer ExxonMobil—it’s a whole different story.

Three million years + 3
(02/10/2006)

She died at the age of three, but it’s a little late to mourn her death—it happened 3 million years ago.