Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) I te tuatahi i whakaaro a Raymond Goldstein kua riro mai i a ia he īmēra takawaenga. I tono te karere ki te tohunga ahupūngao o te Whare Wānanga o Cambridge kia āwhina ia ia ki te mahi i ngā āhuatanga o te makawe, otirā ko te āhua o te ponytails. I whakaaro a Goldstein kua "toa e ia te rota o Nigeria". I te mea kua rite ia ki te pāwhiri muku, ka hurihia e ia te karere kotahi ano, a ka kitea mai he mea no Unilever, he tino taonga o te ao. I te nui o te pākiki, ka tutaki ia ki tētahi māngai o te kamupene, ā, ko te toenga, e ai ki ta rātau, he hītori. I te whakakotahi i tētahi rōpū o ngā tohunga pūtaiao pōtae, ka tīmata a Goldstein ki te whakatutuki i te kaupapa, te whakaputa i ā rātou rangahau i roto i tētahi niupepa arotakenga a ngā hoa. I whakamāramahia e ia te pūkaha wai o te makawe, i ahu mai i ngā kitenga pūtaiao maha mai i a Da Vinci. I waihangahia anō e rātau he kupu hou: ko te hairodynamics. Kāore i roa ka whai mai te aro o te hapori pūtaiao, ā, i roto i te tau kotahi ka riro i a rātau he Tohu Nobel. He Tohu Ig Nobel, koira. He whanaunga whakahihiko ki te tohu nui ake o Sweden, e whai ana te Ig Nobel ki te whakanui i te rangahau i te tuatahi ka kata koe, ka whakaaro koe. I tēnei tau e tohu ana i to rātau huritau 25, nō reira he wā pai kē atu hei whakanui i te takoha a te whānau Ig Nobel ki te hapori rangahau? I ia tau e hia mano e whakataetae ana mō ngā tohu - "e ahu mai ana i ngā rawa iti rawa" e ai ki te kaiwhakarewa a Marc Abrahams - i tū ki te Whare Wānanga o Harvard. Ko te tū ko te kaukau i tōna tino pai. Ka riro i ngā toa ā rātou tohu mai i ngā toa Nobel tūturu, engari ka whakaitihia ngā kōrero e tētahi kotiro e hamama ana e kī ana i tōna mauiui. I ia tau ka whakatangihia e tētahi kapa o ngā kaiwaiata ngaio me ngā pūtaiao tētahi opera iti. I whakatakotoria te tau o mua ki a Mozart, ā, i whakaatuhia he waiata o ngā huakita moroiti. Ko nga kaiwhiwhi o mua ko te tangata i whakakakahu i a ia hei pea poari ki te whakawehi i nga reindeer me te rangahau mo te necrophilia taangata i waenga i nga pato mallard (i whakamoemitihia e Abrahams mo "te kounga nui o te tuhinga". Heoi anō, kāore e taea e ngā toa katoa te whai i ngā whakamoemiti pūtaiao nui. I werohia e nga Ig Nobels te Kawanatanga o Amerika i te tau 2012, i whakawhiwhia ki a ratou te Tohu mo te Pukapuka "mo te tuku i tetahi ripoata...
Ka whakanuihia e ngā Tohu Ig Nobel te huritau 25 o rātau i te marama o Hepetema o tēnei tau. Ko ngā toa o mua o ngā tohu whakahianga kua riro i a rātau he Tohu Nobel tūturu.