Today’s Friday Weird Science was inspired by @TruffledSquirrel, Who sent me the following tweet. @scicurious you love science & coffee; any idea how much caffeine you can actually absorb through your skin? thisiswhyimbroke.com/caffeinated-so… — Joanna Martin (@trufflesquirrel) February 21, 2013 The link listed is to this product: This is Shower Shock, caffeinated soap. And in […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science is inspired by Kate Clancy, or rather, Kate Clancy’s offspring. Said offspring had the recent misfortune to receive a gift in her shoe. A rather smelly gift. Yup, one of her preschool friends pooped in her shoe. So, just found out that one of the kids at preschool pooped in my […]
It is more than coincidence. It is FATE that brought us today’s Friday Weird Science. First, Mr. S alerted me to the reviews for this hair removal product. Warning: do not read the reviews unless you have the space and time to laugh til you cry. As a brief excerpt: I didn’t have long to […]
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a hermaphroditic flatworm in possession of its own sperm, rarely runs short of sperm, and thus must be in want of another hermaphrodite of suitable quality to inseminate.” -Jane Austen, if she had studied flatworms What are the economics of donating sperm? In many species where you have […]
Echidnas, aka Spiny Ant Eaters, are among the species that, until now, I usually forgot existed. When it comes to monotremes, the platypus is the most charismatic (or at least, definitely the oddest looking) of the bunch. And echidnas, well, they just look like…kind of a cross between a hedgehog and an anteater. Kind of […]
Ah, barnacles. You wouldn’t really think that something with the reputation of…well, of being a barnacle, would really have an exciting sex life. I mean, they’re barnacles. They are the very definition of something that is stuck in the mud. They hatch, they head to the open ocean for a few glorious weeks as whale-food, […]
I feel like I am contractually* obligated to pull out the high heels for this post. (My fav heels. Lipstick added for good measure) Everyone knows why we wear high heels, right? For the sexy times, of course! In fact, it’s not just sexy times, it’s biological sexy times. As the headlines cried out to […]
If you’re the kind of nerd like me, then you’re the kind of nerd that really liked spending time in libraries and old bookrooms as a kid. To this day I love having books around me, especially the old kind with nice leather covers. And of course, if you’re spent time around old books, you […]
We humans really like to think we are rational planners. In some examples, we are. Carefully designed modern suburban communities, with walking distances to stores and parks, etc. Require some careful planning. So do the stamped grids of many modern cities. But what about the routes between? You could always just take a straight line […]
The handsome stranger clutched her shoulders, supporting her as she swooned. The suddenness and violence of the robbery and her rescue disoriented Beverlee, and for a few moments she did not know where she was. But as she began to be conscious of her surroundings, she was increasingly aware of the tall, firm man she […]