Miss Heightism
October 31, 2021Mating Swarms
October 25, 2021Hard(en) Deceleration
May 3, 2021Salmons Too
May 2, 2021Most of us presume growth of body length in vertebrates to be unidirectional, with organisms progressively increasing in body size as they become older. However, under challenging environmental conditions for some vertebrates body length shrinkage is also possible. This ability is called the Dehnel phenomenon.…
Short-Tongued Bombus
April 10, 2021A study in Science shows that in a period of just 40 years two alpine bumblebee species (Bombus balteatus and Bombus sylvicola) rapidly evolved significantly shorter tongues. Short-tongued species are more generalist foragers, able to feed on many different types of flowers. They are replacing more specialised, long-tongued…
Vamana
April 6, 2021Suez-Maxed Out
March 30, 2021Buddhist Auxology
March 21, 2021Buddhist auxology is the not-yet-existing study of all aspects of human physical growth from the perspective of the desire to be as small as possible. It would be a multi-disciplinary science involving health sciences/medicine, nutrition science, genetics, anthropology, anthropology, anthropometry, ergonomics, history, economic history, sociology, public…
Woolly Desire (35 kg)
February 25, 2021No Small Fish
February 10, 2021Peeling a Pomelo
January 24, 2021Harden’s Step-back
December 20, 2020Court Dwarfs
December 6, 2020The Not So Resolute Desk
November 30, 2020The 5&1 Step-back
November 15, 2020Trunkism
November 10, 2020Bigorexia (DFM)
November 9, 2020Bigorexia is a subtype of the obsessive mental disorder muscle dysmorphic disorder. The (mostly) men suffering from it have a delusional sense of being too small and insufficiently muscular, despite often already having exceptionally big and muscular bodies. Bigorexians spend inordinate time, attention and resources to gain strength…