Voodoo Dolls, Self-Colonoscopies, And Cleaning Sculpture With Spit: The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes
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The Prize for Medicine went to researchers who found that roller coaster rides could help dislodge kidney stones, while a Japanese gastroenterologist won a Medical Education Prize for performing a colonoscopy on himself while sitting. (He reported “Mild discomfort�.) The Chemistry Prize went to researchers who found that saliva worked better on 18th-century sculpture than […]