Best Research Ever

I’ve been collecting weird and wonderful articles and patents. Inspired by the Best.Titles.Ever pool on Flickr (government documents), I’m putting up my list. If you know of a great biomedical article, book, or patent title that belongs here, send it my way.

Adamatsky I, Akl S, Alonso-Sanz R et al. Are motorways rational from slime mould’s point of view? http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2851
Case TI, Repacholi BM, Stevenson RJ. My baby doesn’t smell as bad as yours: The plasticity of disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior 2006; 27(5): 357-65. [DOI link - must be at a subscribing institution]
Caveney S, McLean H, Surry D. Faecal firing in a skipper caterpillar is pressure-driven. J Exp Biol. 1998 an., 1998;201(1):121,133 ER.
Device for perfusing an animal head (patent). Inventor: Chet Fleming. Assignee: The Dis Corporation. Filed: Dec 17, 1985. US Patent No 4,666,425. Link to full text at USPTO
Elwood RW, Neil SJ. Assessments and decisions : A study of information gathering by hermit crabs. 1st ed. London ; New York: Chapman & Hall; 1992. [Yes we have this at UCSD.]
Holy TE, Guo Z. Ultrasonic songs of male mice. PLoS Biol. 2005 Dec;3(12):e386. [View in PubMed]
Zonkger, Doug. Chicken chicken chicken: chicken chicken. Annals of Improbable Research. 2006 Sep; 12(5)16-21. Link to full text (this article is free from publisher)
Dawson P, Han I, Cox M, Black C, Simmons L. Residence time and food contact time effects on transfer of salmonella typhimurium from tile, wood and carpet: Testing the five-second rule. J Appl Microbiol. 2007;102:945-953. [View in PubMed]