Question: What does an exceptionally smelly fart sound like? Short Answer: Two farts.
Eigenfarts
Question: How many different kinds of fart sounds are there? Short answer: 42
Farts Across the Lifespan
Question: Does the sound of our farts change as we get older? Short answer: Yes.
Interview: PizzaHead
The College’s members are a curious and talented assemblage of professionals from diverse academic backgrounds and with a broad range of skills, interests, and sound frequencies. This will be the first in a series of short interviews with some of the members.
The Fart Cycle
Question: Are farts stinkier at night? Short answer: Yes.
Bimodal Farts
Question: What are the characteristics of smelly farts? Short answer: They are loud and wet.
The Sound of Stink
Question: Are quiet farts really the smelliest? Short answer: No.
Neural Networks
Question: Can people be identified based on the sound of their farts? Short answer: Yes
Boyle’s Law
Question: How much are fart sounds affected by atmospheric conditions? Short answer: Not much.
Methods
Funding for the College’s first experimental rig totaled $126; this was considered a small sum by the standards of the time. Nevertheless, it enabled the purchase of a single device for monitoring air quality, by means of the total concentration of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the vicinity of the sensor. Among the VOCs that…