Jon Hancock<p>Watched a video about the shamefully ridiculous US military plan to create a "gay bomb" which would supposedly have immediately turned enemy combatants gay and sexually irresistible to one another, thus apparently rendering them ineffective in warfare. Not sure the berk who proposed this idea had any education regarding ancient Greece, but still… </p><p>I'd let the existence of this research slide off one side of my brain years ago until the video popped up in my subscriptions, but because it was awarded a 2007 Ig Nobel Prize its reappearance brought up this considerably more entertaining winner from the same year:</p><p>"AVIATION PRIZE: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters."</p><p>Full information for both wins can be found on the Ig Nobel website: <a href="https://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html?amp=1#ig2007" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinne</span><span class="invisible">rs.html?amp=1#ig2007</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Jetlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jetlag</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Hamsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamsters</span></a></p>