Between the attempted assassinations of one of the Presidential candidates (hint: the old, fat, hate-filled, orange, and stupid one) and the fabulist fiction of Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, you may not have heard about the most recent batch of Ig Nobel prize recipients.
Yes, it's in good fun and slightly tongue-in-cheek but also very serious science and (somewhat improbable) research.
Recently honored work included US research to house pigeons in missiles to help guide them to their targets; UK investigations which found that claims of extreme old age tend to come from areas that have short average lifespans and a historical lack of birth certificates, and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.
As fascinating as all of those efforts seem to be, they pale in comparison to the research team from Japan who captured the top prize by discovering mammals can breathe through their anuses.
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| I have no idea how this got here, honestly (sort of) |
And you thought I had made that up.
I was hoping to learn if those mammals could also talk out of the same orifice simultaneously because if not, there's at least the hope they might suffocate.
-bill kenny
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