Friday Weird Science: Fatty Feces or Gassy Guano?

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 […]

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Friday Weird Science: Stop and smell the s**t

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 […]

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Friday Weird Science: Real Men Wear Kilts

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 […]

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Friday Weird Science: Eyeballin’ the David’s Balls

*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 […]

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Friday Weird Science: Bourbon or Vodka? Pick your poison

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 […]

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Friday Weird Science: To everything (sperm, sperm, sperm), there is a season…

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, […]

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Friday Weird Science: Why eat tongue when you can eat testes? The castrating trematode

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 […]

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