Pants must not be filled with foam, lest bad things happen. That is a possible lesson one could draw from this monograph: “A Sticky Situation…”, J. Hardwicke, S. Azad, and J.K.G. Laitung, Injury Extra, vol. 37, 2006, pp. 34–5. The authors at Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK, report [AIR 16:2]: A 25-year-old man was admitted […]
Tag: Research Articles
Perception of Electric Toothbrushes
“The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perception of Electric Toothbrushes,” Massimiliano Zampini, S. Guest, and Charles Spence, Journal of Dental Research, vol. 82, no. 11, 2003, pp. 929–32. Zampini and Spence were awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in nutrition for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person […]
Toilet Tragedy: Smoked Butt to Burned Butt
A cautionary report: “A Rare Form of Burn Injury Sustained During Defaecation,” O. Nahlieli,A.M. Baruchin, E. Eliava, and L. Rosenberg, Burns, vol. 25, no. 5, August 1999, pp. 463–4, DOI 10.1016/S0305-4179(99)00019-4. [AIR 16:2]. The authors explain: A 20-year-old painter, soon after concluding his work, poured residual thinner fluid into a toilet without flushing it. After […]
Paxton on Sea Monsters
“The Plural of ‘Anecdote’ Can Be ‘Data’: Statistical Analysis of Viewing Distances in Reports of Unidentified Giant Marine Animals, 1758–2000,” Charles G.M. Paxton, Journal of Zoology, vol. 279, no. 4, 2009, pp. 381–7. Paxton and three colleagues shared the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for their report “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under […]