Two reports about eating leather (allegedly and really): 1. From 1891, in the report “Report on a beetle destroying boots & shoes in Sydney,” by Walter Wilson Froggatt, on page 4: 2. 1980, in the film “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe“:
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The beetles on the bottle (sex and beer action video)
Here’s video of the natural-and-unnatural phenomenon that led to the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in biology. That prize was awarded to Darryl Gwynne (of CANADA and AUSTRALIA and the UK and the USA) and David Rentz (of AUSTRALIA and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. The […]
The beetle that, also, invented the wheel
When the Australian patent office granted a patent in the year 2001 to Mr. John Keogh for inventing the wheel (an action for which they shared an Ig Nobel Prize), little acknowledgment was given to the several animals who regularly reinvent themselves a wheels. One of those animals is celebrated in a new study: “Wind-Powered […]