Kees Moeliker reports a well-known—but seldom noticed by humans—butterfly behavior: drinking human tears. Here is a machine-translation into English of his report in the September 22, 2020 issue of the Dutch newspaper NRC: ——— Drinking tears While on holiday in the Alps, a butterfly feasts on the eye fluid of Kees Moeliker’s daughter The splendor […]
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Further adventures of a guy who partially uncooked an egg
“We showed that you could uncook the egg and then cook it again. We used mechanical energy to drive the proteins into the correct shape. I became really interested in how you transform things. How do you change chemicals and do it on a massive scale?” UCI [University of California, Irvine] News profiles Ig Nobel […]
Does a herdsman-jilted llama shed tears? [research study]
“Sexual relations between shepherds and the members of their flocks have existed for millennia, leading to the development of a certain type of love between them. The female llama, a ruminant related to the camel, is said by the local people in the Andean high plateau to weep with tears of jealousy when the herdsman […]
Ig Nobel Prize-winning research produces tear-less onions
Chemistry research that led to an Ig Nobel Prize has now led to an onion that does not cause tears, reportedly. The Wall Street Journal‘s JapanRealtime blog reports: No Crying in the Kitchen: Japan Firm Engineers Tear-Less Onions House Foods Group Inc. knows its onions. The Japanese food maker, whose researchers have been studying the chemistry of onions for […]