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…
History of the ICEF
The Invisible College of Experimental Flatology was founded in 2020, back before everything turned out OK, at a time when the forces of buffoonery and biology threatened to unravel the fabric of human civilization. The history of this period hardly needs rehashing. Suffice it to say that people were looking for a distraction.