2008 Ig Nobel Prize awarded to ‘Coke as a Spermicide’ Discovery.
How could I have missed the Ig Nobel Prizes for the past 18 years ? Not sure what the Ig stands for, these ‘nobel prizes’, which parody the more serious and respected Nobel Peace Prizes, are handed out every October for the ten achievements that ‘first make people laugh, and then make them think’.
So without further ado, here are this year’s recepients…
Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill, and Deborah Anderson for finding that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide. On the other hand, C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang proved that it was not.
Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence …read more
