Do you wear polyester pants? Ever wonder if they affected your reproductive ability in additional to making a fashion statement? Yeah, me neither. But one Egyptian doctor was very much concerned about this (i.e., reproductive aspects, not the fashion part) and even did studies in which rats wore little pants made from different materials (now THAT is an example to use when teaching ANOVA) as well as studies with other animals and humans. A short article on this remarkable researcher can be read here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/polyester-rat-pants-ahmed-shafik-science-reprodcution-static-electricity
The article notes that the dedicated researcher won a posthumous Ig Nobel prize in 2016. Now how did I miss that? For some reason, I can imagine an old Monty Python type comedy sketch involving the presentation of research results involving rats wearing polyester pants. And questions about whether the rats wore or took off the pants while having sex (makes one wonder about humans in the same situation ;-). One wonders if one can get pigeons to wear pants too. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=51436 or send a blank email to leave-51436-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
