Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has equitable won an Ig Nobel prize – given to scientific research that ‘first produces people giggle, and then produces them leank’ – for his toil shothriveg that many claims of people living extraordinarily extfinished lives come from places with low lifespans, no birth certificates, and where clerical errors and pension deception abound. He alerts Madeleine what happened when he went watching for the world’s centenarians, and how his toil has been getd by the extfinishedevity research community