Lee Sigelman, Eat Your Heart Out
Via BoingBoing, NCBI ROFL, a blog devoted to cataloging the … more interesting academic articles in the literature. Recent finds include articles:
testing hypotheses about navel fluff generation
on sheerness of disco clothing and female sexual motivation
providing an analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces
presenting a preliminary survey of rhinotillexomania [nose-picking] in an adolescent sample
on accidental condom inhalation as a medical problem (the other medical articles concern subjects even less suited to discussion on a family-friendly blog).
and my favourite, an experiment in which
“Twenty-four dogs were divided into two equal groups, one of which wore cotton underpants and the other polyester ones. Seven dogs wearing nothing were used as controls.”
Truly, academic research is a many-wondered thing …
Comments
Re: “rhinotillexomania [nose-picking]”
A friend once told me that as a young child his grandmother had admonished him “It’s okay to pick it, but don’t eat it.”
Seinfeld had an episode on nose-picking where he was in his car, stopped in traffic, when a new attractive girlfriend pulled along side in her car and was aghast at his pick. Years earlier, I had noticed that drivers do weird things in the “privacy” of their cars, such as picking, that can be readily observed by others from their vehicles, apparently not realizing that they could be observed. It can be entertaining “eavesdropping” while stalled in traffic. Now where’s my cellphone camera . . . .
Posted by: Shag from Brookline | July 3, 2009 08:07 AM
Faculty members get awfully cheeky once they have tenure, don’t they?
Posted by: Lee Sigelman | July 3, 2009 08:45 AM