Automaker Volkswagen has won an Ig Nobel Prize "for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electro-mechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested"

It's a $10tn prize (Zimbabwean dollars, that is ... around 40US cents)

Plenty more Ig Nobel prizes awarded overnight:

  • The prize in economics went to a study of the brand personalities of rocks
  • The peace prize was won for a paper titled "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit" .... given advances in communication, "bullshit may be more pervasive than ever before".

And, more here: Ig Nobel prizes: trousers for rats and the truthfulness of liars