Ian Sample

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Science Weekly · Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

And also there are risks of passing on infections. matched

And so this is really saying something about your relationship if you're willing to kiss them. matched

Um, there may be some benefits in terms of. matched

You can transfer microbiomes between people who kiss. matched

And you look at people in relationships, they have more similar oral microbiomes than the than the rest of us, than other people. matched

And you do see across the animal kingdom, it's certainly a bunch of species, certainly in the gray tapes, you're sitting in chimpanzees and orangutans, but you also see it in animals like Galapagos albatrosses. matched

And if you really want to be put off your dinner, matched

Watch some YouTube videos of polar bears kissing 'cause that can get very tongue y and very frothy very quickly. matched

I do think that Matilda is on course to become the sort of the first Marie Curie, the first, as far as I know, sort of Marie Curie of the Ignobels, right? matched

Marie Curie, famously, you know, one of the very few people to win two actual Nobel Prizes. matched

But Matilda's other work, she tackles a lot of questions that for one reason or another, a lot of researchers won't go near. matched

And a lot of these things are sort of non-reproductive. matched

Sexual behaviors. matched

And she's writing a book on this at the moment. matched

Another bit of work she's done is looking at the evolution of masturbation, right? matched

And she had a paper come out that traced masturbation back at least 40 million years. matched

And then another paper came out that was essentially warning vets and people who eat birds that not to worry if your pet birds are masturbating, because it's actually a normal behavior, it's not a stress response. matched

And so she does a lot of research in these areas and let's face it, those are ripe for ignobels. matched

Yeah, and those questions, you know, you have to be concerned if questions aren't being asked because people just think, Oh, I don't want to go there. matched

That's not a good reason not to do the science, right? matched

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