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Coke as spermicide, placebo prices and the ovulation cycles of strippers were just some of the winning studies this year

Posted 10.6.08 at 5:08 pm 4 Comments

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Chemistry: Coke Kills Sperm

Kees Moeliker / Annals of Improbable Research

Teenagers, do not take heed: Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide. Sharee A. Umpierre, Deborah Anderson and Joseph Hill mixed four different types of Coke with sperm (in test tubes, mind you), and found that Diet Coke is the most lethal sperm killer. No sperm was left standing after its wrath. New Coke wasn’t so deadly: it destroyed only 59 percent of sperm. Again, we can’ emphasize this enough: teenagers, don’t not try this in real life.

William Lipscomb and Benoit Mandelbrot raise a toast to the winners of the Ig Nobel chemistry prize.

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jordanwashere

10/06/08 at 5:56 pm

I'll remember this one the next time I invent a new food!

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jordanwashere

10/06/08 at 5:58 pm

You know the Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel did this one first and I don't see them having an Ig Nobel.

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Foyle

10/09/08 at 7:00 am

The last ignoble should be awarded to Jack Sparrow: "A Dishonest person you can always trust to be dishonest; honestly - its the honest ones you have to worry about."

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Sean Fankey

10/20/08 at 6:48 pm

"Again, we can’ emphasize this enough: teenagers, don’t not try this in real life. "

Don't not?

Interesting...