Is it easy to swim in syrup? Where do strange scientific discoveries come from

How are explosives and diamonds related, Coca-Cola and birth rates, kisses and allergies? What is it like to live in the skin of a goat or fly between droplets like mosquitoes? Do plants have rights? Where does a bee sting... the most?
From a trivial question to a real discovery is just one step... And science is not a dull conveyor belt for producing knowledge; it is full of mistakes, misconceptions, quirky cases, and unconventional approaches to problems. Scientists who dare to look at the world without prejudice sometimes become winners of the Ig Nobel Prize "for achievements that first make you laugh, and then make you think."
Heinrich Ehrlich and Sergey Komarov talk about these incredible discoveries, experiments by researchers (including on themselves), parallels (for example, between the arrangement of hell and black holes), far-reaching conclusions (restoration of protein structure and reversing the flow of time), and most importantly — about inexhaustible human curiosity, the ability to ask questions, and, of course, a sense of humor.