Pizza’s rat-sex study, and pizza rat

Pizza’s rat-sex study has been overshadowed by this video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza, which currently is entrancing the Internet: Pizza’s rat-sex study is: “Hexanic Maca extract improves rat sexual performance more effectively than methanolic and chloroformic Maca extracts,” A. F. G. Cicero, S. Piacente, A. Plaza, E. Sala, R. Arletti, and Cosimo […]

Was the microwave vital to the burn? The cheese pie question.

Forensic fun puzzle of the day: To what extent, if any, was the microwave vital to the import of this medical report? “Thermal burn of palate caused by microwave heated cheese-pie: A case report,” Cases Journal, Panagiotis Kafas and Christos Stavrianos,  vol.1 (2008): 191. The authors, at Aristotle University, Thessalonica, Greece, report: “A female patient, […]

PHD = pizza, sometimes

Sometimes, in some places, PhD means “doctor of philosophy”. Sometimes, in some places, PHD means pizza. One of those places, call of the time, is Malaysia, the base of operations for the company for which the letters P, H, and D stand for “Pizza Hut Delivery“. (Thanks to investigator Elaine Snell for bringing this to […]

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