What’s the damage from a sparkling-wine cork whanging into a merrymaker’s eye? A research study explores that very question, and we explore that study, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published here’s-cork-in-your-eye study. Physicist Melissa Franklin lends her voice, and her scientific expertise, and her opinions —with dramatic readings from a research study you […]
Year: 2017
What the Frog’s Saliva Does for the Frog’s Tongue
Ig Nobel Prize winner David (“urination duration in mammals”) Hu and colleagues turned their intense gaze toward frog tongues and saliva. They published this study: “Frogs use a viscoelastic tongue and non-Newtonian saliva to catch prey,” Alexis C. Noel, Hao-Yuan Guo, Mark Mandica, David L. Hu, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2017, 14, 20160764. […]
“Animal Electrocuted at Atom Smasher Gets New ‘Life’ in Morbid Exhibit”
Mindy Weisberger reports, for LiveScience: Deceased animals in a range of compromising poses share cautionary stories of times when wildlife interactions with humans turned deadly — for the wildlife — in the unusual exhibit “Dead Animal Tales” at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam (NHMR) in the Netherlands. Recently, NHMR welcomed a new addition to the […]
Classification: The Worst Cat
“The Worst Cat” tumblr, which features a hippopotamus, is a meditative essay on the power of classification.