According to the UK's Daily Mail, the Ig Noble awards, celebrating the odd and quirky side of science, were handed out the other night at Harvard. The biology one, about the variety and number of organisms living on a sheet, would make interesting reading. The Peace award went to the United States Air Force, for alleged efforts to make a chemical weapon that would cause enemy soldiers to be overcome by lust, the so-called "gay bomb".

Come to think of it, it would make a great novel, coauthored by Tom Clancy and Jackie Collins, don't you think?

Again, why all these high-tech solutions? Is no one at the Pentagon looking into my Vivid Girls special forces proposal? You go to war with the porn stars you've got.

Anyway, here's some secret footage of the Air Force's early testing of the weapon: