Episode #1070: Kissing and Income Inequality

Published: May 30, 2021, 4 p.m.

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.

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In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.

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In Podcast Episode #1070, Marc Abrahams presents the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners for Economics Christopher Watkins, Juan David Leong\xf3mez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka \u017bela\u017aniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Ant\xf4nio Corr\xeaa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, and Samuela Bolgan. They received the prize for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries\u2019 national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing.

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Seth GliksmanProduction Assistant

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