A doll called Skipper, designed to be a “sister” to the more famous Barbie doll, was a moving anatomy lesson to some of the children and adults who played with it. The doll’s most salient feature: when you lift Skipper’s arm, Skipper grows taller, and grows breasts. This video shows that process: Skipper gets a scholarly analysis — […]
Tag: Breasts
Looking at Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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:
She of the industrial standard breasts
From the book World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert P. Crease: Rita Mazzella is the doyenne of bra fit models. Lingerie companies use her breasts — size 34C — to construct new brassiere lines, then scale the size down to A and B, and up to D. […]
Buttock and breast ogling: Britain vs. Argentina
Sex clearly drives Britain and Argentina as they vie to dominate islands of interest. The two great nations are rivals in producing academic studies of whether and how people stare at women’s breasts or buttocks. Britain fired the first shot in this war. In 2007, Adrian Furnham [pictured here] and Viren Swami of University College London published […]
Coffee and Breast Size
Seemingly unrelated factors come together in this coffee-fueled study: “Coffee intake and CYP1A2*1F genotype predict breast volume in young women: implications for breast cancer,” Helena Jernstrom, M Henningson, U Johansson and H Olsson, British Journal of Cancer, vol. 99, no. 9, November 2008, pp. 1534-8. (Thanks to Sara Rörbecker for bringing this to our attention.) […]
Engineering frontiers: The untapped power of breast motion
Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion one day recently I had an idea. As I rode public transportation to the office, my messenger bag slung uncomfortably across my chest, I thought, “Why not put the girls to work?” Human-powered devices are showing up everywhere, from Rotterdam’s sustainable dance floor to human-powered gyms in Hong […]