Contraceptive Drink
Spermicide Coke
Move over, pills. Vamoose, loops. Shoo condoms. Make way for the master -
For discovering that, yes indeed, Coke is a spermicide, Anderson and her team [Boston University's School of Medicine] are among this year’s winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, the annual award given by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine to oddball but often surprisingly practical scientific achievements.
I seriously believed Coca cola and its rival Pepsi were only suitable for toilet cleaning. Good to find more uses.
[...] We knew it all along don’t we? That coke is a dish washer, coke is a pesticide and coke is a contraceptive, a spermicide. Its true; Coke kills sperms and it is proven. It has even won a 2008 Chemistry IgNobel for those [...]
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October 9, 2008 at 9:58 am