‘The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom… for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.’ –William Blake
Putting Helium in a Dolphin. Two opposing hypotheses propose that tonal sounds arise either from tissue vibrations or through actual whistle production from vortices stabilized by resonating nasal air volumes. Here, we use a trained bottlenose dolphin whistling in air and in heliox [a mixture of helium and oxygen] to test these hypotheses.
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Sixty-two percent of the dishwashers were positive for fungi.
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Some years ago a colleague pointed out that there was a connection between paranoid symptomatology and the drawing in of joints on arms and legs on human figure drawings. [A researcher named] Buck states that emphasis upon knees suggests the presence of homosexual tendencies. Over a period of time, this investigator was impressed with the frequent connection between these two variables. This study was designed to determine the validity of this hypothesis.
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In Study 1, 55 young women responded that they preferred men with hairy chests and circumcised penises.
{ Annals of Improbable Research | Special Body Parts Issue | PDF }
