For those of you that may have missed this report on NPR, in which IgNobel prize winner Bart Knols (originally a native of Limburg, the Netherlands) tells the story of his search for a compound that would be irresistable to malaria mosquitos. Wait 'til Gary Larsen gets ahold of this!
http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/4933
Man : I can't understand how a poet like you can eat that stuff.
T. S. Eliot: Ah, but you're not a poet.