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	Podcast:		Big Ideas (Video)
	Episode:		Marc Abrahams on science
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		00:34:03
	Publish Date:		2007-09-29 17:00:00
	Description:		Marc Abrahams, editor of The Annals of Improbable Research and one of the organizers of the annual Ig-Nobel Prize ceremonies at Harvard University, discusses the work of scientists and academics that, "first makes you laugh, and then makes you think". Highlights of the lecture include discussions of a study that proves that Kansas is flatter than a pancake and a paper investigating The Forces Required to Drag Sheep Over Various Surfaces.
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