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10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

January 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From Oddee:

  1. The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
    The greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate.
  2. Love and Sex with Robots
    Human-robot marriages will be legal by 2050.
  3. Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World’s Literature
    The study reports, among other items: a beer glass, a suitcase key and a magazine.
  4. Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans
    The animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences.
  5. Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment
    A quick, simple and non-traumatic approach to penile zipper entrapment.
  6. Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo — Calculations on Avian Defecation
    They get up, move to the edge of the nest, turn around, bend over… and shoot.
  7. Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread
    When feeling endangered, Peter used his bodily smell and farts to envelop himself in a protective cloud.
  8. Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers
    The brains of London taxi drivers are more developed than those of their fellow citizens.
  9. Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature
    The most reliable temperature interval to carry out ultrasonic measurements in Cheddar cheese is identified as 0 to 17 °C.
  10. Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold
    The thickness of the underwear has the most influence on thermoregulatory responses.

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