Frederik Borgesius on Nostr: ‘Ig Nobel prize goes to team who found mammals can breathe through anuses… Other ...

‘Ig Nobel prize goes to team who found mammals can breathe through anuses… Other work honoured on the night included… UK investigations which found that claims of extreme old age tend to come from areas that have short average lifespans and and a historical lack of birth certificates, and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/12/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who-found-mammals-can-breathe-through-anuses #science #academia #IgNobelPrize