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Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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Lynne Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2014:
The weirdest experiment I’ve ever done is when I tried to study what is in sausage skin. We took it to a synchrotron and shone high powered X-rays on it. It didn’t really work but it was fun trying!
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Daren Fearon answered on 17 Jun 2014:
All of my experiments seem pretty normal, to me atleast, but that is probably because I do them so often.
Some pretty weird but genius ideas are recognised by the Ig Nobel award. These include using magnets to levitate sumo wrestlers or perfecting a method to collect whale snot using a remote-control helicopter! You can read more about them here http://www.improbable.com/ig/
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anon answered on 18 Jun 2014:
I once built a maze for maggots to test whether maggots followed the smell of food or preferred the smell of maggot pheromones. Pheromones are sort of perfume that members of the opposite sex give out to attract a mate (they occur in humans too). The maggots followed the pheromones rather than the food!
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Phillip Manning answered on 18 Jun 2014:
Placing a straw into the wind-pipe of a dead chicken, and blowing on the said straw to inflate the air-sacs in the bird….I was explaining to an anatomy class how the air-sacs interface with the respiratory system 🙂 Once inflated you can squeeze the air out and the chicken often squarks….eeek!
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