A rare study about vacuum-cleaning, pregnancy, and microbes, in houses: “Potential association of vacuum cleaning frequency with an altered gut microbiota in pregnant women and their 2-year-old children,” Ekaterina Avershina, Anuradha Ravi, Ola Storrø, Torbjørn Øien, Roar Johnsen and Knut Rudi, Microbiome, vol. 3, no. 65, December 21, 2015. (Thanks to Rom Gavitz for bringing […]
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One Should Not Taser a Pregnant Police Officer or a a Methamphetamine-intoxicated sheep?
It has been suggested that someone, somewhere might question the assumption that it’s an excellent idea to taser a pregnant police officer,and that someone—perhaps someone else—might question the assumption that it’s an excellent idea to taser a methamphetamine-intoxicated sheep. These two studies investigate those possibly related questions: “The Pregnant Officer,” Fabrice Czarnecki [pictured here], Clinics In Occupational and Environmental Medicine, vol. […]
Why Britain Boasts So Many Pregnant Men
A letter in BMJ suggests a reason why so many men in Britain seem to be pregnant: “The Importance of Knowing Context of Hospital Episode Statistics When Reconfiguring the NHS,” Lauren Brennan, Mando Watson, Robert Klaber and Tagore Charles [three of whom are pictured here], BMJ 2012;344:e2432. The authors, at Imperial College London, write: “We were […]
Interview with Professor barefoot & pregnant
Claudia Dreyfus interviews Daniel Lieberman (who shared the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in physics, for or analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over) about his research on barefoot running and other things. It’s in the New York Times. Here’s a snippet: Among his academic peers, Daniel Lieberman, 47, is known as a “hoof and mouth” […]
His pregnant and barefoot discoveries
Daniel Lieberman, 1/3 of the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize-winning trio who discovered why pregnant women don’t tip over (their study was published in Nature), has a new paper out, also in Nature [Lieberman, D. E. et al. Nature 463, 531-536 (2010).] Nature comments on it: evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, […]