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Chicken blushing / Smectic / Entropy for travel / Sword swallowing / Kids’ saliva

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Chicken blushing — People — humans — blush. Chickens aren’t entirely inhuman in that they, too, show emotions on their facial skin. Delphine Soulet at the University of Tours, France, and colleagues have explored how skin redness […]

Pocket-Sized #1003: “Dogs’ Favorite Garbage”

Dogs’ Favorite Garbage In this Pocket-Sized episode #1003, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to Melissa Franklin. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue. The research mentioned in this episode is featured in the special Blushing issue (vol. 19, #2) of the Annals of Improbable Research magazine. Remember, our Patreon donors, on most levels, get access to each podcast episode […]

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