Why do we pick our nose? The BBC looks into the question. The biggest thing it finds is Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade‘s study that won the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize for public health. Here, at right, is a photo of Dr. Andrade. And here, below, is detail from Dr. Andrade’s study:
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Nose-Picking in the Pongidae and Its Implication
The Primate Nooz concocts discoveries and discussions about primates. Perhaps its finest production is a document called “Nose-Picking in the Pongidae and Its Implication for Human Evolution”. The piece begins: Nose-picking and subsequent consumption of nasal detritus are activities that have been widely observed among extant species of pongids, and that appear to be almost instinctive […]
What snot for dinner
Chapter 15 of the book Consuming the Inedible: Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice is called “Eating Snot – Socially Unacceptable but Common: Why?” Maria Jesus Portalatin wrote that chapter. Investigator Wilson Maslin brought it to our attention, and now we bring it to yours. BONUS; The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “A Preliminary Survey of Rhinotillexomania in an Adolescent Sample,” Journal […]
Philosophy: Nose picking and more
2001 Ig Nobel Public Health Prize winner Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade [pictured here at the Ig Nobel ceremony] wrote an essay called “Laugh and Then Think” in the Deccan Herald. He says (among other things) that: Our research had scientific merit, but persons from other walks of life could be forgiven for feeling amused at the […]