Thursday, April 09, 2009
News you can use: Regarding "belly button fluff"
Lest you were worried that professors investigated unimportant matters of no practical value, consider the navel-gazing work of Austrian professor Georg Steinhauser:
After three years of research, Georg Steinhauser, a chemist, has discovered a type of body hair that traps stray pieces of lint and draws them into the navel.
Dr Steinhauser made his discovery after studying 503 pieces of fluff from his own belly button.
Apparently the hairs on your abdomen pass the lint along until it settles in your belly button.
Fortunately, you can defeat nature:
Dr Steinhauser established that shaving one's belly will result in a fluff-free navel - but only until the hairs grow back.
Other suggestions for keeping the navel fluff-free include wearing old clothes, as they tend to shed less lint than newer garments, which can lose up to one thousandth of their weight to the belly button over the course of a year.
A body piercing can also be used, with belly button rings particularly effective at sweeping away fibres before they lodge.
Note that if you are one of my children defense against belly button fluff is not adequate justification for a piercing.
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1 Comments:
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Fri Apr 10, 12:09:00 AM:
I am wondering what did he do with those lints. (BTW who counts something like that?) Did he collect it, stuffed a little pillow with it, and gave to his sweetheart for Valentine's Day? :-)
Vilmos
