This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Love ostriches — The known risks – corporate, financial, personal, sexual – of starting an ostrich farm are perhaps not so well known in New England as in old England…. Coffee aromatherapy — Praewpat Pachimsawat, Manita Tammayan, […]
Category: Boys Will Be Boys
Research — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — by and for teenage boys of all ages and genders.
Cutting of Entrapped Metal Penile Ring With Diamond Cutting Disk and Mozart
This is a rare music video about using a diamond cutting disk to cut an entrapped metal penile ring. The music is Mozart’s piano concerto no. 21 in C major. The medical procedure is described in the study “Cutting of Entrapped Metal Penile Ring With Diamond Cutting Disk,” Brian Stork and Ehab Eltahawy, JU Open, […]
Guéguen Busted?
SAGE publications today (March 18, 2023) published this “Item of Concern” about “Bust Size and Hitchhiking” and other papers they published that were co-authored by Nicolas Guéguen [pictured here], of whom we have written much over many years (and about whom our friends at Retraction Watch also have written much): Expression of Concern The Journal Editors […]
The Men / Small-Penises / Fast-Cars Research Study
“We found evidence that when men were manipulated to feel that they had a relatively small penis, they ranked sports cars as more desirable than when they felt relatively well endowed and that this effect was most pronounced in men 30 and over,” say the authors in this new study: “Small Penises and Fast Cars: […]



