This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Full of beans — On a gut level, what happens after a person becomes full of beans? Flatulence is what happens. But attempts at mitigation, explain Iowa State University researchers Donna Winham, Ashley Doina and Abigail Glick, […]
“Husband Invents Fart-Proof Undies For Love” is the title of this video by 60 Second Docs, about Buck and Arlene Weimer, winners of the 2001 Ig Nobel Biology Prize:
Flatulence in Dogs, the Real-Life Wizard of Oz, Triskadekaphobia When People Buy a House, Boys Will Be Boys, Why Your Doctor Should Smell, Soft is Hard, You Bastard, and Personal Space at the Beach. In episode #206, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Nicole Sharp, Robin Abrahams, Melissa Franklin, Chris Cotsapas, Jean Berko […]
James Joyce may not have had particularly good eyesight, but (some say) he at least partially made up for it with a heightened awareness of smells. Especially bodily ones. Which he often wrote about. In great detail. But do academic works about Joyce’s evident preoccupations with flatulence – which have led some scholars to suggest that […]
