(FILES) Science magazine editor Marc Abrahams acts as Master of Ceremonies for the the 15th annual Ig Nobel Prizes honouring the flip-side of scientific genius, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 6, 2005. This week while the Nobel laureates were receiving their awards in Stockholm, laureates of the Ig-Nobel laureates - a play on words on "ignoble" in English - were on tour in Paris. In front of packed rooms at the University of Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) and the Ecole Normale Superieure, the physicist spoke about the solid and liquid nature of cats, while his colleague revealed the science behind a famous pasta recipe. (Photo by JOHN MOTTERN / AFP via Getty Images)