Mary Ann Raghanti

Michelle Bebber sprays an air freshener in a bathroom.

Anthropology Team Brings Home the 2020 Ig Nobel Award for Materials Science

In 2019, a team of researchers in Kent State’s Department of Anthropology published its “prize-winning” research article titled “Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work” in the Journal of Archaeological Science. (Yes, the jokes are seemingly endless, but seriously folks, there is an important underlying message here about evidence-based research and fact-checking!)

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