The Aer-O-Scope? is a self-navigating, automatic colonoscopy device that begins at the rectum and proceeds, in a backwards fashion, as far (and around bends!) into the colon as you need it to, according to the manufacturer. It is a product for people who have deep faith in technology.
Month: April 2006
LESSONS UNLEARNED: Falling coconuts and a fallen Stone
Again [see mini-AIR, November 2003, section 03], someone has failed to heed the lesson of an Ig Nobel Prize winner, and has suffered for it. The Sydney Morning Herald reports, on April 30, 2006, that: ROLLING Stones guitarist Keith Richards is recovering in an Auckland hospital after suffering head injuries when he fell out of […]
Intoxicated statistics
How fuzzy a dose of statistics does it take to generate a clear news headline? Publicity-minded statisticians can delight in the results generated by a study published in the May 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The study, which is credited to ten (10) authors, has already inspired a powerful HealthDay report […]
Looking at looking at a building
Jim Hanas took many photographs of people taking photographs of the Chrysler Building in New York City.