The key to explaining a strange idea, someone somewhere may once have said, is to talk really, really fast. Here is a new example. An explanation is given, in video form, at two speeds. A lengthy text explanation is published in the medical study “Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin therapy […]
Earthworms are getting some loving, concerned attention as to their imminent aqua predicament. The University of Leeds made this announcement: Researchers are to investigate whether the humble earthworm is being threatened by climate change and flooding here in the UK. Scientists from the University of Leeds, the University of York and the University of Liverpool will spend the next […]
Angelica Ørregaard Lindholm has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says: I am a PhD candidate in forensic toxicology at the University of Copenhagen, where I am studying the effects of nitrous oxide on the ability to drive and how to detect intake of nitrous oxide in blood samples. My […]
This is the latest in a series of drawings by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. (This one also harmonizes with the Halloween season.) This one celebrates the Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize that was awarded in the year 2017 to Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres, for the first scientific report of human […]