Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), host and main writer of the Improbable Research weekly podcast (distributed by CBS), and author of This is Improbable Too and other books. He edits and writes much of the web site and blog www.improbable.com, and is a longtime regular columnist for The Guardian newspaper. Marc is the father and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are handed out by genuine Nobel laureates at a gala ceremony held each autumn at Harvard University and broadcast on the internet and on National Public Radio. the Washington Post called Marc "the nation's guru of academic grunge." The Journal of the American Medical Association called him "the Puck of Science." He has been called many other things.