Two Ig Nobel Prize winners have new books out about the evolution of the human body, or portions thereof. Daniel Lieberman (2009 prize in physics for analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over)’s new book is The Evolution of the Human Head, ISBN 978-0674046368. Ivan Schwab‘s (2006 prize in ornithology for exploring and explaining […]
Tag: eye
Icky: Superglue + eye
You may wish you had closed both eyes before you saw mention of this medical report about a patient who closed one eye. The monograph is: “Inadvertent Application of Superglue as Eye Ointment,” A. Mandal, D. Imran, and M.W. Erdmann, Irish Medical Journal, vol. 96, no. 10, 2003, pp. 310–1. [AIR 16:2]
When sex can be an eye-opener
“Can Chlamydial Conjunctivitis Result From Direct Ejaculation Into the Eye?” ask Simon Rackstraw, ND Viswalingam and Beng T Goh of the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. That question forms the title of a study they published in 2007 in the International Journal of STD and Aids. Drs Rackstraw, Viswalingam and Goh describe the plights of […]
Odd injury: glass-eye/shoelace/fork
Investigator Tatiana Divens alerts us to a Washington Post account (part of an obituary) of an unusual means of injury: Paul Schaefer was born near Bonn in 1921. He had a glass eye, having accidentally gouged out his right eye while trying to untie a shoelace knot with a fork. He joined the Nazi youth […]