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The Guardian: Ig Nobel prize goes to team who found mammals can breathe through anuses
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Wait, so can mammals actually breathe thru their butts?
Can you drown from butt chugging!?
Pleeze b safe
I don’t know, I can breathe out using my butt, but I’m so straight nothing goes in my butt, not even air.
What does lg stand for in the title
The Ig in the Ig Nobel prize stands for nothing. It’s supposed to reference the word ignobel. The Ig Nobel prize is a parody of the actual Nobel Prize
I don't think it does. Push the name together, switch order of two letters, and it is ignoble. The name is a riff on the Nobel Prize.
Other work honoured on the night included US research to house pigeons in missiles to help guide them to their targets; 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.
Other work honoured on the night included US research to house pigeons in missiles to help guide them to their targets
"The pigeon knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't..."
Other work honoured on the night included US research to house pigeons in missiles to help guide them to their targets;
Bruh. That's not new and it's actually pretty fucking effective...
Pretty much everything you listed have been known for years
and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.
We better get the preeminent scientist, Bart Simpson, to actually confirm this.