It’s not often that movie stars and pop singers are given the same celebrity as top scientists. The October 3, 2008 issue of the International Herald Tribune features a stunning conjunction of celebrities: Dr. Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University Medical School and Harvard Medical School, co-winner of the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide); movie stars Salma Hayek and James Earl Jones; and singer Tina Turner:
