Read the article.Ignatius: the other NobelEvery December, mass media the world over report on the Nobel Prize winners. But there is also another prize called the Ig Nobel.Every year, a few days before the Nobel Prize meeting in Stockholm, a thousand people meet at Harvard University, in the USA, to decide on the Ig Nobel Prize winners.Ignatius Nobel has nothing in common with Alfred Nobel. His most outstanding work? A physics study to demonstrate that in a glass of soda no two bubbles go up to the surface the same way. This fundamental study is the model for the Ig Nobel Prize Committee. It is not surprising that few winners collect the prize!The studies are absurd, but they are academically and scientifically sound. The prize, says its creator Marc Abrahams, is for people who are ‘full of imagination and good intentions’. In 1998, for instance, the winners of the Ig Nobel Prize for Economics were Aki Maita and Akihiro Yokoi, mother and father of Tamagotchi, the cyber pet many parents hated. There are ten prizes, but the fields change every year. The ’98 winners of the Biology Ig Nobel were a group of Swiss, Japanese and Swedish professors. Their study was a record of the brain waves that different flavours of chewing gum produce: they found that the peppermint, for instance, produces specific brain waves that are different from strawberry or eucalyptus! The Physics Prize winner in 1997 was Robert Matthews of Aston University, Great Britain. His study demonstrates by scientific means how, when a slice of buttered toast falls to the ground, it always falls with the buttered side down.Some of the prizes are political. The Peace Prize winner in ’97 was French President Jacques Chirac for commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb with nuclear tests in the Pacific. Others can be more artistic, like the ’95 Psychology Prize. They trained some pigeons and now they can tell a Picasso from a Monet painting.Choose three things that are true about the Ig Nobel Prize.