DoD gets non-prize for ‘gay bomb’

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DoD gets non-prize for ‘gay bomb’
By Mark Pratt - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 5, 2007 17:45:10 EDT

BOSTON — Good news for your Viagra-using hamster: On his next trip to Europe, he’ll bounce back from jet lag faster than his unmedicated friends.

The researchers who revealed that bizarre fact earned one of 10 Ig Nobel prizes awarded Thursday night for quirky, funny and sometimes legitimate scientific achievements, from the mathematics of wrinkled sheets to U.S. military efforts to make a “gay bomb.”

The recipients of the annual award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine were honored at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater.

The Air Force won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize this year for its proposal to develop a “gay bomb” — a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers want to make love with each other, not war with the enemy.

Abrahams talked to a number of retired and active Air Force personnel to try and get someone to accept the prize in person on behalf of the military. None would.

“Who in their right mind would turn something like this down?” said Cornell University professor Brian Wansink.


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