Ig Nobel Awards 2007

This must be one of the best trophies ever designed: the Ig Nobel Prize. As you might expect, this year's crop of winners is bound to raise a titter or two. Winning projects include using Viagra to cure hamsters of jet-lag, extracting vanilla from cow dung, a study of the side-effects of sword swallowing, a census of all the wildlife and fungi that share our beds, a demonstration that rats can't tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and Dutch backwards, and a "gay bomb" to provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among enemy troops (sounds just the job for the Taliban). Click the title link to read the serious side of all this.