“People’s concerns about excessive flatulence from eating beans may be exaggerated.” That conclusion emerges loud and clear at the end of a study published recently in the Nutrition Journal. Donna Winham [pictured here], of Arizona State University, and Andrea Hutchins, of the University of Colorado, call their report Perceptions of Flatulence From Bean Consumption Among Adults in […]
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How to live without ever eating food
Jasmuheen, winner of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in literature, has yet another video in which she explains how to live one’s life without eating food, provided that one gets plenty of sunlight. She gets right down to business, more or less, at about the 1:00 minute mark: Jasmuheen was awarded her Ig Nobel Prize […]
What the dog ate. What the scientist reported.
A dog at a scientist’s lab work. The scientist then wrote a report about the dog eating the scientist’s lab work. The report is: “Thallium toxicosis in a dog consequent to ingestion of Mycoplasma agar plates,” Birgit Puschner [pictured here], Marguerite M. Basso and Thomas W. Graham, Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, vol. 24 no. 1, […]
A shorts course in cooking, inspired by neutrinos
Len Fisher [pictured here], who was awarded the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, has advice for a scientist who is confident to his very shorts that the neutrinos-travel-faster-than-light reports will turn out to be in error. Dr. Fisher wrote a letter that’s published in The Guardian (on Nov 25): If […]
Verdi’s Gastromusicology
The Bibliore blog reports: In opera, eating and drinking function largely as they do in society—they define social relationships…. [Some] gastromusicological laws may be deduced from Verdi’s operas: A meal is never sad. Hunger is never happy. A shared meal or drink is a socially cohesive event. The presence of food or drink precludes immediate catastrophe (unless poison is involved)…. […]
Surely thou ingest: 100 trillion a day
Emily Anthes takes on an everyday “What if…?” question: What happens if you snack on something that’s been adulterated with some unusual DNA?Every time this question comes up, scientists and experts reply with the same, reasonable answer: We’re already gobbling down DNA. I knew this, but only recently did I stumble upon a quantification of […]