FEEDBACK’s favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were presented last week to their worthy recipients in a ceremony at Harvard University. Organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, 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 Air Force Research Laboratory) 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…
