From diving into mysterious substances to sniffing frogs to painting people’s eyeballs, there are many ways to earn a crust
In 2005, Williams and his colleagues won an Ignobel prize in biology “for painstakingly smelling and cataloguing the peculiar odours produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed”.
Green tree frogs, Williams said, released a smell akin to roasting cashew nuts. “It was definitely cashews. And it was definitely roasting.” The odour released by brown tree frogs, meanwhile, resembled freshly cut grass. “Before someone sees us they might have had an accident or cancer or some sort of eye disease,” she explains, “and it can have been for many, many years before they eventually had their eye removed.”
“When I’m painting, it probably takes me an hour,” she says. ““There are different challenges with different eyes. She herself is unsure what clients are looking for: “For a perfect tan … [or] is it the nails? Is it the length of the actual hands?”
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