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Ms Nic Svenson is such a comedian, she's blinking in this photo, jovially reflecting the work they did on how many photos need one take to get no-one blinking - the work for which they were awarded the Ig Nobel award.

Ms Nic Svenson (left) spoils a rather nice photo of Dr Piers Barnes.

CSIRO's Ig Nobel winners

Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson of CSIRO discuss in this podcast being awarded an Ig Nobel for their research into photographing groups of people without them blinking. (7:07)

  • 6 October 2006 | Updated 25 November 2011

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The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded to Dr Piers Barnes and Ms Nic Svenson of CSIRO for figuring out how many photographs to take of a group of people to be confident of getting at least one where no-one’s blinking.

Ms Kylie Johnson speaks to the winners shortly after the award ceremony at Harvard University, in the United States of America.

Read more about CSIRO boasts Ig Nobel Laureates (Media release 6 Oct 06).

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CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

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