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Yeah, that figures. Seems like maybe that should be the Captain Obvious Award.
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That monkey is going to pay…
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Who knew cats were so integral to the production of cow milk!
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“Scientists win award for discovering mammals can breath through our anuses”
No, not Our, Their.
As in their anuses. Mammals can breathe through their anuses.
Or some fucking mammal owes me dinner!
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Of course it can. It does so every day.
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Are you not a mammal?
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In case anyone is interested, Science Friday traditionally plays highlights of the ignoble prize awards ceremony as its Thanksgiving Friday episode.
The ceremony itself can be pretty hilarious, especially when the scientists get into the spirit of the awards.
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Well, you know, it takes a while for the scientific community to fully . . . digest . . . new findings. They have to work their way through the system, you might say.
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They definitely didn’t start out that way, though - for a number of years, the awards were all ironic, for people who engaged in atrocious pseudo-science and general fuck-ups (stupid inventions; people who did damage to science education, to archaeological sites, to world peace, etc…). Slowly it started switching over to what it is now, but it still feels like it’s tainted by the mockery of those early “prizes,” and it seems like at least some researchers still take offense when nominated/winning them as a result.
Not to be confused with the “nocebo” which is a placebo, but the consumer of the fake medicine experiences (negative) side-effects instead of getting better. (No, really.)
It really wasn’t, though (obvious, that is) - the extreme age numbers were coming out of areas at least adjacent to places that do have long life expectancy, and poverty was not, in itself, as obvious a counter-indicator as you might think to longevity. (I.e. epigenetic influences could have accounted for that - having grandparents with low calorie diets before puberty can impact your metabolism and chances of being diabetic, for instance. Which means wealth of previous generations can have a negative impact on longevity.) If similar numbers were coming out of, say, sub-Saharan Africa, they would have been rejected out of hand because of generally low life expectancy there, but the statistics were coming out of counties with some the highest life expectancies (Japan, Italy), which made them quite plausible.
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How can you tell with an Englishman?
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Well, yes, and the sentence is technically correct.
I just found the grammar jarring.
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PSA: Don’t try blocking your windpipe and breathing solely through your anus. Unless your anus is absolutely gaping, you will not get enough oxygen this way.
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Please hire an editor. “Breathe” is the word you’re looking for, not “breath”
It’s already been noted in the record.
Velcome to BoingBoing
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Are you, disappointed?
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Only because he hasn’t read the manual
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Apparently bad grammar is triggering enough for some to create a whole ass account to comment on it…
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So I couldn’t resist looking up the cats and cows, because why were the cats on the cows? Imagine my face when a news spot had the quote “Later the cat was dispensed with as unnecessary” with no further info/explanation.
This does not allay my unease!
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