Purdue students sniff manure for science

[ZapperZ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_sc/sniffing_stenches" ?

I only have one thing to say about this: "EEEEWWWWWWW!"

Luca Magnani, a doctoral student in animal science, said the hogs farms are the worst to smell, but he's used to being around animals, so it doesn't bother him much.

"Grad students are kind of poor. I've done worse than this, he said.

Er... such as what exactly, Luca?

ZZ.

 

[hypatia]

Like de-winging fruit flys. I would of much rather sniffed some stinky air.

 

[wolram]

I do not know what the farmers are using to manure the land these days but by heck it stinks.

 

[Moonbear]

Er... such as what exactly, Luca?

Going into the barns to clean the pens that the samples are coming from.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The OSU health sciences department was once offering what sounded like a pretty good deal for students: $1200 for some muscle core samples. At first, even as a non-starving student I had considered participating. But it turned out that for $1200 they wanted something like 50 cores over a period of a year! OUCH!

 

[tribdog]

Er... such as what exactly, Luca?

ZZ.

Tasting it for $35?