On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Andrew Pam wrote:
The 2008 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 2, at
the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders
Theatre: http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008
"The Role of Armadillos in the Movement of Archaeological Materials: An
Experimental Approach"
You just know this started out as a proper study of some archaeological dig,
until some darn armadillo screwed the whole thing up and left a poor
post-grad having to come up with something PhD-able out of the mess.
The Coca-Cola spermicide sounds like something straight out of Mythbusters.
Cheers,
Katherine
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