For decades — during the original run and then countless reruns — Florence Henderson, who presided over the Brady Bunch, was America's perfect Mom.

We've invited Henderson to play a game called "They said you were mad at the Academy! Mad, I tell you!" In September, the Annals of Improbable Research handed out their annual Ig Nobel Awards for achievements in real, if ridiculous, research. We'll ask three questions about the far horizons of science.

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