In her book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Florence Williams looks at breasts, and at how other people look at breasts, in ways that are scholarly, technological, and entertaining. This video lets you look at Williams looking at those things in those ways:
The Great Attempt to Catalog All Fetishes (including the pacemaker fetish)
On 28 October 2004 we humans took a giant step towards cataloguing all of our sexual fetishes. An Italian/Swedish research team, led by Claudia Scorolli [pictured here] at the University of Bologna, downloaded data from hundreds of online fetish discussion groups and spent the next three years analysing their haul. Then they published a study in the […]
This and That and The Syntax of Concealment
How can you hide secret information in plain text? You could try non-obvious manipulations of this and that. First, some background … Steganographers have been endeavouring to devise methods for hiding information since at least 1499 (and probably before that). A subset, known as Stegotext, hides info in apparently normal text – for instance by […]
Further progress in male nipple positioning
Since 2009, progress has been made in devising techniques for determining ideal male nipple positions. (see previous Improbable item on Divine Proportions in male nipple re-positioning) A research team from the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, have now contributed to the body of work – noting […]