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William Lipscomb was the prize in the Win-a-Date with a Nobel Laureate contest. Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for “chemical attraction.”

Gareth Jones accepts his Ig Nobel Prize in Biology during the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Each of the ten winners received a Petri dish and a stuffed bacteria plushie.

Jean Berko Gleason, who gave the Welcome, Welcome and Goodbye, Goodbye speeches, demonstrates that swearing helps to relieve pain. Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK won the Ig ...

Princess x comfort in this ruffled hoodie.

A splash of color in an otherwise muted palette.

Sharon S. Hao ’14 sets the ball as Emma S. Gargus ’14 prepares to spike in the game against Springfield College on Tuesday. Despite winning the first set, the Engineers lost the game.

Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol uses hand puppets to explain how bats perform oral sex on each other, before being censored by the “V-chip” at the Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony on Thursday. Jones won the Ig Nobel...

“Sustainable Style,” a fashion show that took place at the Charlesmark Hotel on Wednesday, provokes contemplation on the role of social consciousness in fashion and how plausible it is to integrate into the everyday g...