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Why Do We Feel Sick to Our Stomach?

5 Jul 2024

If you have ever been truly disgusted by something you saw, you have experienced feeling sick to your stomach. Revulsion involves the brain, clearly, but somehow it can be felt in our digestive...

Can You Turn Nausea Off at the Wrist?

6 Aug 2021

A few years ago, I found myself on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean. The weather conditions were dodgy, but our skipper decided to go ahead with the whale watching expedition. The first couple of...

Rabbits Eat Their Own Poop

31 Mar 2018

Rabbits are foraging herbivores, eating mostly grass and weeds. But this fibrous, cellulose rich diet isn’t the easiest to digest, and by the time their dinner has make it through their intestines...

Vomit

30 May 2017

This sounds distasteful, but is worth remembering.  Believe it or not, vomit appears to be astonishingly effective at spreading viruses.  Investigators were called in when 52 people at a hotel...

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