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  • Sex, food, armadillos dominate 2008 Ig Nobel Awards: offbeat but useful scientific discoveries

    10/03/2008 7:38:56 AM PDT · by Justice Department · 15 replies · 863+ views
    foxnews ^ | October 03, 2008
    PHYSICS: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle. CHEMISTRY: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu and B.N. Chiang for proving it is not. ARCHAEOLOGY: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino for showing armadillos can scramble the contents of an archaeological dig. BIOLOGY: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc for discovering that fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than fleas that live on a cat. MEDICINE: Dan Ariely for...