FEEDBACK’S favourite prizes, the Ig Nobels, were handed out on 2 October at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. As promised by the organiser, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, they made you laugh, then think – though you also may wonder what some of the recipients were thinking when they were planning their projects.
Deborah Anderson of Harvard Medical School’s birth-control laboratory took her first step towards the Ig Nobel chemistry prize in the 1980s when she asked medical student Sharee Umpierre what type of contraception had been used at the all-girl Catholic boarding…
