Wordsmoker

Delicate flower and celebrated saxophonist Mintygreen’s day-job involves her trawling through the human wonders/horrors of PubMed. Here she takes the intellectual high-road, and doesn’t even giggle once about “gas”, or indeed mention the “f-word”*.

This is a very special dispatch from the land of PubMed– this time around, I call your attention not just to one article, but to an entire issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. This issue is devoted, in full, to a topic of the highest importance and greatest potential for fart jokes: I speak, of course, of intestinal gas. Read the rest of this entry →