Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Ariely [pictured here, right] answers a reader’s question about a substance that produced an Ig Nobel Prize in 1995. A reader of Ariely’s blog asked: During a recent trip to Los Angeles, I stopped by a coffee shop offering a very expensive coffee called kopi luwak, or civet coffee. I […]
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“Clerics drop plan to ban civet coffee”
AFC reports on a controversy involving luak coffee, the subject of a 1995 Ig Nobel Prize. Under the headline “Indonesian clerics drop plan to ban civet coffee“, AFP says: JAKARTA — Indonesia’s highest Islamic body on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking the world’s most expensive coffee, which is extracted from the […]