One of the most awaited awards of the year.The IgNobels are awarded for "Research that first makes people Laugh, and then makes them Think". This year's award ceremony was held on the 5th of October at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
This year's awards include some of the following:

1) ORNITHOLOGY: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.

2) PEACE: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but not to their teachers.

3) MATHEMATICS: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed

4) PHYSICS: Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.

5) This is my favorite:
BIOLOGY: Bart Knols for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.



Click Here for the official site or here for a Wikipedia entry. Adjoining is seen the photo of the 2005 IgNobel awards, where the winners gather for a pointless photo opportunity.