The theme of the upcoming 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is DIGESTION. Some humans think of digestion mainly in terms of their own experience, either as eating food or as being food. To expand the mental and digestive horizons of one of those people, suggest to them that they read, or at least […]
This is the latest in a series of drawings by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. (This one also harmonizes with the Halloween season.) This one celebrates the Ig Nobel Archaeology Prize that was awarded in the year 2013 to Brian Crandall and Peter Stahl, for parboiling a dead shrew, and then swallowing the […]
“How did they reach that conclusion? … If you eat a shrew whole, and excrete its bones, the bones will have specific hallmarks of human digestion, typified by the concentration of stomach acid and so on. In fact a scientific team won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2013 for studying what happens to shrew bones […]
Roger Lentle is a professor at the Massey Institute of Food Science and Technology New Zealand. Here is an example publication from professor Lentle (along with co-author C. de Loubens) ‘A review of mixing and propulsion of chyme in the small intestine: fresh insights from new methods’ in: Journal of Comparative Physiology B, May 2015, […]
