IG NOBEL SOIL SCIENCE PRIZE 2026 [SWITZERLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY]
Franz Bender, Marcel van der Heijden, Atlant Bieri, and Pia Viviani, for burying 1000 identical pairs of underpants in more than 25 countries, and then digging them up after two months.
5 Comments
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 25d
they buried cotton underpants in different soil conditions and the decomposed most quickly in home gardens, use leads to more organic activity.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 25d
using this when my better half asks me to explain the holes in me undies.
BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 25d
"It was for land use!"
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 24d
“1000 Swiss volunteers missing following underwear experiment”
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 2 pts · 18d
It did!