Puma tasted of veal. Armadillo roasted well in its shell. In Patagonia in 1834, a young naturalist ate half a small ostrich before realising it was the rare rhea he'd hunted for months. That was Charles Darwin, Glutton Club alumnus.
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The project used 2000 new organic cotton underpants to ensure standardized material that alloed us to draw sound scientific conclusions. To ensure that the decomposed underpants do not end up in the land-fill, researches sought collaboration with the fashion designer Edie Lou Studio, a rococo ball dress was created from decomposed underwear to put soil where they belong- into the spotlight.
👗 https://soilproof.org/beweisstuck-unterhose/
Give them the Nobel!
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The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize in Soil Science went to researchers who asked 1,000 citizen scientists to bury underpants!
🩲https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70259
The result? Real research, hundreds of co-authors, and brilliant science communication. This is citizen science at its best! 🤩
#CitizenScience #IgNobel #SoilScience #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #ParticipatoryResearch #OpenScience #SciComm
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Every night in Paris, a dozen dogs sat at table in armchairs, tailored coats, and linen napkins, each attended by its own footman. The master: Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, Fellow of the Royal Society and prebendary of Durham.
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Angels, he reported, marry in pairs, still have sex, and wear clothing that changes with their mood. Jupiter's inhabitants are wiser than ours. Emanuel Swedenborg, Sweden's chief mining assessor, surveyed heaven the way he'd surveyed iron ore.