Some scientists carry on the tradition of eating the animals or plants they study: leeches, tadpoles, 30,000-year-old bison. Darwin did it first, but why do it at all? Call it all-consuming curiosity. Source: [url=http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/12/430075644/dining-like-darwin-when-scientists-swallow-their-subjects?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=strangenews]Dining Like Darwin: When Scientists Swallow Their Subjects[/url]