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Newsflash: Swallowing Swords Is Bad For Your Health

Discover the quirky world of the Ig Nobel Awards with engaging mini-movies on unusual research like sword swallowing side effects.

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Fresh on the heels of the 2009 Ig Nobel Awards come six mini-movies about the research of past winners, including this doozy, Sword Swallowing and its Side Effects, which took home the Ig Nobel Medicine Prize in 2007. Check out this episode below: Related Content: Discoblog: Beer Brawls and Bras at the 2009 Ig Nobel Awards Discoblog: Crunchy Chips and Smart Slime Mold Win 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes Discoblog: Nobel Laureates Go Ape After Royal Society Creationist Comment

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