Smart Slime, Ovulating Strippers Among 2008 Ig Nobels

Friday, October 3, 2008 - 16:42 in Health & Medicine

The annual Ig Nobel Prizes are given to scientists whose work made readers both laugh and think. This year's honors went to research on everything from puzzling placebos to spermicidal soda.

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