People like what they eat, rather than eat what they like. The phenomenon starts early. Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother’s foods, and studies consistently show that babie...
Nancy Rawson, seated across from me, is AFB’s director of basic research and an expert in animal taste and smell. She volunteers that cats are more or less monoguesic, meaning they stick to one food....
Meaning by way of the anus. Per annum, with two n’s, means yearly. The correct answer to the question, What is the birth rate per anum? is zero (one hopes). The Internet provides many fine examples of...
Liver, says Moeller. Mixed with some other viscera. The first part that a wild animal usually eats in its kill is the liver and stomach, the GI tract. Organs in general are among the most nutritionall...
Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
I'd called Stanley Garn because I was looking for anthropologists who had done a nutritional analysis of human flesh and/or organ meats. Just, you know, curious. Garn hadn't exactly done this but he h...
Human remains dogs are distinct from the dogs that search for escaped felons and the dogs that search for whole cadavers. They are trained to alert their owners when they detect the specific scents of...
Frequent bowel movements were associated with an increased risk of rectal cancer in men, and constipation was associated with a decreased risk. Mike Jones wasn’t surprised. The medical community was n...
By the end of the conference, there was a sense that removing the junk is actually possible. I've gone from being totally skeptical to thinking maybe something will work, Kessler says. We can bring th...
But peanuts are hardly representative of the average food. Everyone knows—via visual observation of stool samples, to use the New England Journal of Medicine’s way of saying a glance before flushing—t...
Because it’s hard for people to gauge quality by flavor, they tend to gauge it by price. That’s a mistake. Langstaff has evaluated wine professionally for twenty years. In her opinion, the difference...
Anne Marie's beauty and style belie a down-and-dirty education in the particulars of practical AI (artificial insemination). She has miked a boar of his prodigious ejaculate--over two hundred millilit...
And finally, my gratitude to UM 006, H, Mr. Blank, Ben, the big guy in the sweatpants, and the owners of the forty heads. You are dead, but you’re not forgotten.
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
To test. Would weightlessness put them off their game? It did. The turtles moved slowly and insecurely and did not attack a piece of bait placed directly in front of them. Then again, the water in whi...
To find. He was trying to requisition some gas-powered leaf blowers to blow the new sand off the old. Nothing was happening
She has talked to cancer patients whose taste receptors have been destroyed by radiation treatments. The situation is well beyond unpleasant. Your body is saying, ‘It’s not food, it’s cardboard,’ and...
You may be wondering, though probably not, why newborns—who have no teeth to protect—produce excessive volumes of drool. Silletti has answers. One is simple mechanics. They lack teeth to physically ke...
When you get right down to it, there is no dignified way to go, be it decomposition, incineration, dissection, tissue digestion, or composting. They're all, bottom line, a little disagreeable. It take...
We were unable to obtain any lesbians, Pomeroy says, as though perhaps they hadn’t been in season, or his paperwork wasn’t in order.)