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Professional Indexer Glenda Browne answers questions at the Ig Informal Lectures in 10-250 on Saturday, Oct. 6. Browne won this year’s Ig Nobel in Literature for her study of the word “the” and the ways it causes prob...

Brian Wansink describes his study where he fed subjects with a constantly refilling bowl of soup. Wansink won this year’s Ig Nobel in Nutrition for studying the effects of visual cues on the amount of food eaten.

Flies cover the fruit in the slums outside Delhi, India.

A family examines a blown glass pumpkin at the annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch on Saturday, Oct. 6. Approximately 1,000 pumpkins were displayed for sale on Kresge Oval to benefit the MIT Glass Lab.

Bands in the HONK! parade bring energy and fun costumes to the streets during the second annual HONK! festival which returned to Somerville and Cambridge this past weekend, ending with a parade on Sunday from Davis Sq...

Tsumura of the Hungry March Band performs a trumpet solo in a spontaneous jam session after the second annual HONK! festival, which returned to Somerville and Cambridge this past weekend, ending on Sunday with a parad...

Children in the slums outside Delhi, India overflow with laughter as they push for the prime spot in the photograph.

Brooke Schepp of Case Western Reserve University asks xkcd fans to sign a poster with their name and where they are from. The poster was later given to xkcd creator Randall Munroe. Hundreds of fans showed up at Rev. T...

YOU’RE A KITTY!—Randall Munroe, creator of the popular xkcd Web comic, gives his autograph to loyal fans at Rev. Thomas J. Williams Park in Cambridge on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. Hundreds of fans showed up at the park a...

In recognition of the release of Halo 3, a highly anticipated video game by Microsoft and Bungie, MIT hackers adorned the John P. Harvard statue, in Harvard Yard, with a Spartan helmet. The back of the helmet, which ...

Over 30 xkcd fans climbed onto a giant metal-and-rope regular octahedron in Rev. Thomas J. Williams Park in Cambridge Sunday, Sept. 23. According to xkcd forums, the structure managed to hold up to 106 people. Hundred...

Jean E. Theurer ’10 aims to score under pressure from a Bridgewater State defender midway through the second half of the Sept. 20, 2007 women’s soccer game. The Engineers overpowered the Eagles 2-1 in overtime.

Amy S. Ludlum ’08 scores her third goal against Mount Holyoke midway through the second half of the women’s soccer game Saturday. The Engineers blasted away the Lyons in the second half winning in a 7-0 shutout.

Water splashes (left to right) Elizabeth L. Hanson ’11, Sara L. Campbell ’10, and Monica G. Gallegos ’11 at Rev. Thomas J. Williams Park on Sunday. Hundreds of xkcd Web comic fans showed up at the park after creator R...

Charles Goodwin of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute extends a tape measure to well over 10 feet at Rev. Thomas J. William Park on Sunday, Sept. 23. Hundreds of xkcd Web comic fans showed up at the park after creator R...

Eilzabeth G. Lovegrove ’09 fills out part of the “Dream Girl” comic from xkcd. Creator Randall Munroe expressed to hundreds of fans Sunday, Sept. 23 that the last frame in his comic was clearly incorrect and asked for...