\nYou might laugh now, but did you ever try to get a very unwilling sheep to get its yearly haircut? The trick seems to be a slightly sloped surface\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- The nature of navel fluff (Steinhauser 2009)
\nWhat the nature of navel fluff? This study brings us a bit closer to understanding this phenomenon and shows that old shirts produce more naval fluff than new ones. It actually hypothesises that naval fluff has a cleaning function? Pretty neat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/react\/files\/2016\/12\/belly.jpg\")
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- Pressures produced when penguins pooh \u2013 calculations on avian defecation (Meyer-Rochow et al., 2003)
\nI\u2019m sure these penguins from the coronation islands in the south Orkneys would love some information how to being covered in poo. Not sure how you might ever need this information, but make sure to check out the original paper \u2013 the figures are amazingly informative\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/react\/files\/2016\/12\/penguin.jpg\")
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- Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of bearded men (Barbeito et al., 1967)
\nApparently beards are able to harbour a variety of microorganisms you can pick up in microbiological lab \u2013 even washing merely reduces chances of unwittingly infecting others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/react\/files\/2016\/12\/beard.jpg\")
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- Physics take the biscuit (Fisher, 1999)
\nFinally, the physical formula on achieving biscuit-in-tea-dunking perfection! Not always quite applicable maybe, the author advises that best results could be achieved when always having a thermometer on you for taking the exact temperature of the tea into account before dunking your digestive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/react\/files\/2016\/12\/biscuit.jpg\")
<\/p>\nReference List:<\/p>\n
Harvey, J. T., Culvenor, J., Payne, W., Cowley, S., Lawrance, M., Stuart, D., & Williams, R. (2002). An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces. Applied ergonomics, 33(6), 523-531.<\/p>\n
Steinhauser, G. (2009). The nature of navel fluff. Medical hypotheses, 72(6), 623-625.<\/p>\n
Meyer-Rochow, V. B., & Gal, J. (2003). Pressures produced when penguins pooh\u2014calculations on avian defaecation. Polar Biology, 27(1), 56-58.<\/p>\n
Barbeito, M. S., Mathews, C. T., & Taylor, L. A. (1967). Microbiological laboratory hazard of bearded men. Applied microbiology, 15(4), 899-906.<\/p>\n
Fisher, L. (1999). Physics takes the biscuit. Nature, 397(6719), 469-469.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Physics take the biscuit (Fisher, 1999)
- Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of bearded men (Barbeito et al., 1967)
- Pressures produced when penguins pooh \u2013 calculations on avian defecation (Meyer-Rochow et al., 2003)