Does your poop float? Does it sink? Do you have floaters and sinkers depending on the day? Maybe you’re one of those people that never looks to see. Nah, don’t lie. You look. So if you have looked, surely you’ve wondered…what makes poop FLOAT? I seem to recall asking my mother this once as a […]
These days, we’ve got an infinite variety of ways to tell people what we ate for breakfast. Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, phone calls, singing telegrams! (Believe me, what we are about to discus would be about as well received) But you know, if you want people to really UNDERSTAND your diet, your current obsession with greek […]
I have to say I’ve always expected it. Wearing kilts…well it takes strength. Confidence. It takes cojones. And who knows, it might be the smart thing to do! Forget easy access, forget the free swing of balls on the breeze…could wearing a kilt be best for your SPERM? Kompanje, EJO. “‘Real men wear kilts’. The […]
Sigh. The penis story is now 5 days old, and I’m only just now getting to it. Sci is sad and behind the times, but that’s because I don’t get the awesome press releases that so many journalists are heir to. The joys of academia, I’m the last to hear about the penis study! The […]
*sings* Doooooo your balls hang low do they wobble to and fro can you tie ’em in a knot? can you tie ’em in a bow? *ahem* Anyway. testicles. Most people with intimate experience of testicles (and heck, even those who have experienced them second, or even third hand), will know that one testicle generally […]
Today’s post comes to you courtesy of Mary Roach (aka, the person I want to be when I grow up). I have a copy of her latest book, Gulp: adventures in the alimentary canal that I am reading for review, and a weird science connoisseur such as myself of course spends half her time in […]
Most everyone who drinks has had some variation on this conversation with other drinkers: Person 1: Let’s go out and get margaritas!!! Person 2: Ugh, beer for me then, tequila does horrible things to me. Person 1: Well I can’t do beer, clear liquors are the only way I never get a hangover! …and so […]
Today’s paper came to me via a tweet from the perspicacious Ivan Oransky, who linked to the Reuters coverage. I can’t help it, this paper made me sing. *sings* To everything (sperm, sperm, sperm) There is a season (sperm, sperm, sperm) And a time, to many humans, for conceeeeeeeeption. Or perhaps… *sings* It’s the time, […]
The body doesn’t like foreign objects. For example, our skin is often able to “work out” small splinters, and we can reject many implants with nasty allergic responses to them. Some species (such as catfish), when you give them an implant, will work it into the intestine, and poop it out (there’s even a report […]
Carl Zimmer over at Phenomena posted another great post about the tongue-eating parasite! Don’t worry, it’s not coming for YOUR tongue, it prefers fish. The parasites get in the fish’s mouth, one turns female (they start out all male) and eats the fish’s tongue, and then takes its place! She hang outs there while the […]