Who Won the 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes for Physics and Chemistry?

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...have been announced. (BBC.com)
Physics Prize - Gabor Horvath and colleagues, for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones.
 
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