By locking fat people’s upper and lower jaws together with a tooth-to-tooth metal lock, a team from the Unviersity of Otago and from Leeds (UK), intend to slim those fat people down. So suggests a June 28, 2021 press release from the University of Otago. The press release begins: “University of Otago and UK researchers […]
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The mystery of how some animals lock themselves into place
Benno Meyer-Rochow, who won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2005 for calculating the pressures produced when penguins poo [see diagram, below] is now investigating a different kind of biological mystery. Meyer-Rochow wrote an essay that begins: You can lock arms with someone, you can lock on to something or be locked in or even be […]