This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Bulgarian yogurt in space — “Can Bulgarian yogurt enhance astronauts’ performance during the Mars missions?” ask Izabela Shopova, Diana Bogueva, Maria Yotova and Svetla Danova in their study of that name published in the Journal of Ethnic Foods.The […]
The awarding of the 2023 Ig Nobel Medicine prize for research on nostril hairs revives happy memories of a publicity campaign mounted a decade earlier by the organization Clean Air Asia. That campaign introduced itself by saying: The campaign seeks to highlight, humorously, that urban populations should not adapt to worsening air quality but actually […]
Enjoy, if you will, Masanori Maeda’s masterful “Über den Nasenhaarbalg bei einigen Säugetieren” [Nasal Hair Follicles in Several Mammals]. It was published in Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica, vol. 25, nos. 5-6, 1954, pp. 235-238. Here’s a bit of detail:
“Winston Churchill: Inguinal Hernia Repair on 11 June 1947,” by J. Allister Vale and John W. Scadding,” is one of the research studies featured in the article “Medical Research: Sarsaparilla, Nose, Churchill’s Hernia“, in the special Formulas & Recipes issue of the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research). Read the article online. And if you like, […]
