The winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for physics wrote about their work, in The Conversation: “We vibrated earthworms to learn about safely connecting human brains to computers”
Tag: Worms
Cockroach oil gets thumbs down for cookery [new study]
If you’re thinking of supplementing or replacing your plant-based cooking oils with oils made from insects, maybe steer away from Blaptica dubia – the Dubia Cockroach. Stick to mealworms or house crickets instead. That’s the take-home message from a new paper in-press at the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed which details recent progress […]
Alexander Semenov and Alexander Semenov, and their works
One Alexander Semenov makes beautiful photographs of worms deep in the ocean. The other Alexander Senenov invents spectacular devices, one of which is a method to use the waste products produced by the crew of a battle tank, stuffing those waste products into explosive shells that the tank fires at an enemy. See if you […]
The Worms of a Preston Graveyard
Shakespeare wrote, in his Sonnet 71 : “No longer mourn for me when I am dead Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.” But which worms exactly? For steps towards answers, turn to the Sept 3rd […]
Four-headed worms, six-legged frogs, and other new fauna
“We have four-headed worms, six-legged frogs, and many other unusual creatures here as part of our work on bioelectricity and organ regeneration.” Biologist Michael Levin said that. Charles Choi explains, in an article in LiveScience under the headline “Mutant tadpoles sprout eyeballs on their tails“. BONUS: “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain” BONUS: “Two legs, […]
Migraine: Worms for her, please!
Migraine is the subject of a report by Dr Katherine Foxhall [pictured here] in the Wellcome Library blog: Houseleeks and Garden Worms … Since I began researching the history of migraine three years ago, I have been just as intrigued by the recipe books in the Wellcome Library’s manuscript collections… Jane Jackson’s book is a great example. She carefully compiled her […]
Medical reasons not to ingest living earthworms and geckos
There can, this report implies, be definite medical reasons not to ingest living earthworms and geckos: “Visceral larva migrans associated with earthworm and gecko ingestion: a case report,” Tao Yu1, Li-Na Zhao, Miao-Jing Fan, Huan Wu and Qi-Kui Chen, Journal of Medical Case Reports, epub July 18, 2012, The authors, at Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, […]
A little worm humor
If, like many people, you don’t knowingly work with nematodes, you may not have had the opportunity to partake of the best in little worm humor. The community of scientists who study these tiny worms gathers every year for a big meeting — and in the meeting, some of them perform The c. elegans Worm […]
On finding worms in your fish (2)
Behold a safety equation for sushi. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) produced this jolly poster called “Application of Interaction Tables – Sushi Roll with Raw Fish. Potentially Hazardous Food: The Evolving Definition of Temperature Control for Safety”
On finding worms in your fish (1)
Speaking of worms in fish, Investigator Stanley Sanpaul writes: I talked to somebody who used to work in the fish department at my local store. He said 1. finding worms in fish is VERY common 2. worms are good in the following sense. Squeeze lemon on the fish (before cooking of course). The worms don’t […]