In the midst of important things: SVT’s Ig Nobel snippets

This year, Swedish live TV coverage of Nobel Week is spiced with (unrelated but delightful) Ig Nobel snippets.

Interspersed in their traditional dignified, lengthy coverage of the grand Nobel Week events in Stockholm, the Swedish television network SVT is broadcasting bits of something rather different, unrelated, and delightful-if-not-exactly-pertinent: brief reports about several of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winners.

Take a look at part of it. Click this link (or the image below) to go to SVT’s web site. An Ig Nobel segment begins around the 27 minute point in the recording: