"In the spirit of Monty Python's humor, based on an actual gait analysis, a Dartmouth research team finds that the minister's silly walk is 6.7 times more variable than a normal walk," the college ...

Behold the Monty Python workout. It’s silly! It’s walky! It works, according to an important — or, at least, actual — study published today in the annual holiday edition of the BMJ, a ...

The walk was made famous by John Cleese's character Mr. Teabag, and requires 2.5 times as much energy as normal walking, per a study Monty Python were pioneers in sketch comedy, but their impact ...

Then, the researchers had the participants walk this way: like Mr. Teabag did in the “Ministry of Silly Walks” skit that first appeared on the Monty Python TV show in 1970.

In the spirit of Monty Python's humor, based on an actual gait analysis, a Dartmouth research team finds that the Minister's silly walk is 6.7 times more variable than a normal walk.

What Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks can teach us about peer review Reducing the time it takes for peer review by 80 percent wouldn't affect funding levels.