Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause. A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings. This shrinkage has occurred within just…
Literature, both high and low, offers important insights when it comes to our view on size differences. Here’s a list of books, periodically updated and expanded, in which size plays a key role. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (published 1776-7). In this political satire Gulliver meets with…
This research project takes its name from the 1957 classic scifi film The Incredible Shrinking Man. Based on Richard Matheson’s book The Shrinking Man, it is about a man who slowly shrinks into oblivion. It is a rich document for analysis of some of the…
The world’s shortest man, He Pingping, who was just over 72cm tall, has died at the age of 21 from apparent heart complications, the Guinness World Records book said. He, whose diminutive body size was the result of primordial dwarfism, was recognized as a world-record holder in…
