10 Worst Jobs in Science

By Alp Arslan

Posted Apr 13, 2010 9:48 PM CDT Posted Apr 13, 2010 9:48 PM CDT
Promoted on Newser Apr 14, 2010 9:18 AM CDT

Copied

10 Worst Jobs in Science — A village woman makes cow dung cakes, and arranges them to be sun dried in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Popular Science's annual list of the worst jobs in science has some doozies this year. Dung collector Jim Mead, a prof at East Tennessee State University, has the largest collection of excrement in the world, around 13,000 specimens, many from the Ice Age. The folks at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia have been studying arm pit odor since 1973. And our favorite: whale organ collector. For the rest of the top 10 see the full list.

Read These Next

Martha Stewart in hot water over her Halloween costume.
Casual angler reels in million-dollar fish.
A look at why everyone appears to be reading the same books.
Coroner blames experimental peptides in actor's death.

Report an error