When you return from this journey into the belly button of your mind, you can participate in one of the BBB's very real "sampling events," where you volunteer to be navally swabbed with a Q-tip. They

Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren't your average navel gazers. They're professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and their new study details the microbial contents of 60 volunteers' belly

Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jiri Hulcr,  Andrew M. Latimer,  Jessica B. Henley,  Nina R. Rountree,  Noah Fierer,