Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research returns to talk with Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle. "Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'" — Nature Follow @MarcAbrahams @B0yle Links: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/02/16307714-2012s-maya-non-apocalypse-takes-the-grand-prize-for-weird-science?lite http://www.improbable.com/