The IG- Nobel prizes for 2014 have been awarded.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

I think this one is my favorite: "ARCTIC SCIENCE PRIZE [NORWAY, GERMANY, USA, CANADA]: Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears."

(you can browse through many years of .....important... results.)