devoted to work and more on our web site at d.w. dot com slash culture will tell you when you can watch the program. thank you for. a new floor ceremony took place in the u.s. as you of cambridge massachusetts on thursday night the ig nobel prize honors achievements in scientific research achievements that make you laugh and then make you think the seventy's light hearted but the group's a serious. i it's not what you would expect from a conventional award ceremony where else with the audience be encouraged to bombard the host with paper airplanes welcome to the twenty eight first annual ig nobel prize ceremony. and then there are the winners they may look on remarkable but they're all scientists who have done something out of the ordinary. the recipients of the prize for medicine came up with a novel way of curing