IG NOBELS

This Year's Losers — uh, Winners

Why do sheets wrinkle? Can a bomb turn straight soldiers gay? Will Viagra help hamsters get over jet lag?

Those are just a few of the timely and important questions explored by winners of last week's 17th First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes. The awards are doled out each fall by the science-humor journal Annals of Improbable Research, whose editor, Marc...

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