{"id":13417,"date":"2024-09-13T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13417"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:26:31","slug":"rectal-respiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/13\/rectal-respiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Rectal Respiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/13\/science\/ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-2024-intl-scli?cid=ios_app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"maincontent\">Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their anuses receive Ig Nobel prize<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;Issy Ronald<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their butts awarded \u2018Ig Nobel Prize\u2019\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yhJexxAD-iA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/15\/world\/ig-nobel-prizes-2023-intl-scli-scn\/index.htmll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IG Nobel Prize<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, some of these questions \u2013 which you might not even have thought existed \u2013 now have answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now know that many mammals can breathe through their anuses, that there isn\u2019t an equal probability that a coin will land on head or tails, that some real plants somehow imitate the shapes of neighboring fake plastic plants, that fake medicine which causes painful side-effects can be more effective than fake medicine without side-effects, and that many of the people famous for reaching lofty old ages lived in places that had bad record-keeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those collecting their prizes was a Japanese research team led by Ryo Okabe and Takanori Takebe who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses. They say in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666634021001537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their paper<\/a>\u00a0that this potentially offers an alternative way of getting oxygen into critically ill patients if ventilator and artificial lung supplies run low, like they did during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/13\/science\/ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-2024-intl-scli?cid=ios_app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their anuses receive Ig Nobel prize By&nbsp;Issy Ronald The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the\u00a0IG Nobel Prize\u00a0on Thursday, some of these questions \u2013 which you might not even have thought existed \u2013 now have answers. 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