Jasmuheen, who won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in nutrition for her book “Living on Light,” which explains that although some people do eat food, they don’t ever really need to, now tries to clarify her claims about her never-eat-food diet. In a newly distributed newsletter, she writes: [I offer] books and CD’s that may […]
Month: August 2010
Female college students, and rats
A study called Similar Preference for Natural Mineral Water between Female College Students and Rats pulls off a nice bit of interspecies diplomacy. Reading it end to end, you would be hard pressed to say who – the college students or the rats – was most intended to benefit from the research. Written by Esumi […]
Boob research, pursued (en Español)
The Caffeine blog dug into some of the research featured in the July/August 2010 issue (vol. 16, no. 4) of the Annals of Improbable Research. They fleshed out, so to speak, descriptions of several of the studies cited in that issue’s “Boys Will Be Boys” column. Their essay begins: ¿Prefieren los hombres las mujeres de […]
Don’t blame the bear. Blame the gull.
There is news about polar bears, barnacle geese and their eggs. BBC News reports: An Arctic expedition has confirmed fears that polar bears are preying on the eggs of barnacle geese that migrate to the Solway Firth each winter. During a recent trip, scientists discovered evidence of bears eating thousands of eggs. The bears have […]