REALLY BIZARRE RESEARCH PAPERS
Added on: 29th Jun 2016
CAN CHICKEN FEATHERS BE USED TO
DETERMINE THE SPEED OF A TORNADO?
Vonnegut, B. (1975). “Chicken Plucking as Measure of
Tornado Wind Speed”. Weatherwise
They can in fact! All you have to do is determine the exact
wind speed at which all of a chicken’s feathers get blown off.
After that you just apply some fancy mathematics and
voila!…you have your answer.
CAN FARTING MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER?
Sidoli, M. (1996). “Farting as a defence against unspeakable dread”.
Journal of Analytical Psychology
Of course farting makes you feel better physically, but what
about mentally? Apparently it can, because according to these
researchers, farting can actually prevent depression.
WHAT IS THE OPTIMAL WAY TO DUNK A BISCUIT?
Fisher, L. (1999). “Physics takes the biscuit”. Nature
It’s complicated. Actually, it’s so complicated that it took an
entire research paper to figure it out.
WHAT SPECIES OF COSTA RICAN TADPOLE
TASTES THE BEST?
“On the Comparative Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles
from Costa Rica”, Richard Wassersug,
The American Midland Naturalist
For all you “dry-season Costa Rican tadpole” lovers out there,
you can finally put your questions to rest.
CAN MAGNETS LEVITATE A FROG?
Berry, M. V.; Geim, A. K. (1997). “Of flying frogs and levitrons”
(PDF). European Journal of Physics
They can, and they did.
HOW DANGEROUS ARE COLLAPSING TOILETS?
Wyatt, JP; McNaughton, GW; Tullett, WM (1993). “The collapse of
toilets in Glasgow”. Scottish medical journal
According to these researchers, very dangerous. And as toilets
age, the danger of collapsing toilets only increases.
ARE FALLING COCONUTS DANGEROUS?
Barss, P. (1984). “Injuries due to falling coconuts”.
The Journal of trauma
We already know that collapsing toilets are dangerous, so how
about coconuts? Canadian researchers answer our question
with a resounding yes, falling coconuts have the potential to kill you.
WHY DO SHOWER CURTAINS BILLOW INWARDS?
Anthony Ramirez (15 July 2001). “How to Avoid Being Attacked
in the Shower”. The New York Times
It’s something we have all tried to avoid, the inevitable attack of
the shower curtain. And now we have science to rescue us,
or at least explain why the curtain behaves the way it does.
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