Ig Nobels feature knives created from human poo and vibrating worms
2020 Ig Nobel prizes went to teams that proved knives made of faeces fail, vibrating worms are interesting and hating chewing noises is a disorder
A group of American researchers in Ohio has won this year’s Ig materials science prize for proving the uselessness of knives created from frozen human feces. The team, led by anthropologist Metin Eren at Kent State University, evaluated the validity of a well-known ethnographic account of an Inuit man fashioned a knife from his own frozen feces to butcher and disarticulate a dog. The researchers manufactured ‘knives’ out of frozen human excrement, tested them, and found that they couldn’t even cut through hide.