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10 October 2007

Ig Nobel prizes 2007

FEEDBACK’s favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were presented last week to their in a at Harvard University. Organised by the science humour magazine , the awards celebrate research that makes you laugh, then think.

This year’s Ig Nobel peace prize went to unnamed researchers at what was formerly the US air force’s Wright Laboratory (now the ) in Ohio for putting a new twist on the old slogan “Make love, not war”. They proposed a new generation of chemical weapons that “affect human behaviour so that…

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