advances in science

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 9 16:12:56 PST 2002


An item from the current New Scientist:


>RESULTS are now in from the survey of belly button lint (or fluff)
>conducted by Australia's popular science broadcaster Dr Karl, with
>support from Feedback (14 October 2000).
>
>Data from 4799 people revealed that 66 per cent of them have
>belly-button lint (BBL). You're more likely to have BBL if you're
>male, older, hairy and have an "innie" (a concave belly button as
>opposed to a convex "outie"). For a detailed breakdown of the
>results, together with a tentative theory to explain BBL and quotes
>from participants in the survey, check out
>,<http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/default.htm>.



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