The 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes honored ten unexpected things today, making people laugh and then think. The awards gala took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the audience threw paper airplanes. This year’s Ig-winning achievements cover various areas, including using pigeons to guide missile flight paths. Another notable winner was Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, who discovered that real plants imitate the shapes of plastic plants. Lieven Schenk, Tahmine Fadai, and Christian Büchel earned the medicine prize for their research on fake medicine with painful side effects. Jimmy Liao received the physics prize for explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout. The Ig Nobel chemistry prize went to Tess Heeremans, Antoine Deblais, Daniel Bonn, and Sander Woutersen for separating drunk and sober worms using chromatography. Saul Justin Newman received a prize for research in demography for his work on the longevity of people in regions with poor record-keeping. Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen were posthumously awarded the biology prize for an experiment involving a cat, a cow, and an exploding paper bag. Marc Abrahams, the creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, has a website called improbable.com. Feedback can be sent to [email protected], and past Feedbacks can be viewed on the website.