Celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative: 2011 Ig Nobel Prize winners announced

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A Wasabi Smoke Alarm, the impact of urinary urgency on decision-making and the discovery that a certain kind of beetle copulates with beer bottles were among the achievements honored in this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University.

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This year's Ig Nobel Prize in biology went to a group of researchers who discovered an odd habit of an Australian male jewel beetle. It copulates with short empty beer bottle called a "stubby" which it mistakes for a female jewel beetle.

The soon to be extinct jewel beetle
 
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