The folks behind the video series Drunk History honed a particular way to tell a story, using drunkenness as a frame that makes the picture more interesting. In these episodes, they tell the basic story of Nicola Tesla:
Hysterectomy in a male? A rare case report
A surgical procedure, performed on a man in India, gave birth to this unusual medical case report: “Hysterectomy in a male? A rare case report,” Afak Yusuf Sherwani, Abdul Qayoom Shah, Abdul Majeed Wani, Ahmad Chalkoo Bashir, Ahmad Khan Bashir, Farooq Ahmad Sofi, Ashfaq Amin Wani, Wasim Lone, Ab Hamid Sherwani, Mehmood Rashid Sheikh, Raj Reshi Sharma, […]
Brain transplants : the implications [5 of n]
Professor Rebeka Rice of the Philosophy Department at Seattle Pacific University, US, examines the paradoxical implications of brain transplants. [see previous article in this series] The 2012 Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship presents an entity called ‘Bob’ (pictured) Bob is a human being, albeit a hypothetical one. “Perhaps a better way […]
A scientific paper that’s baffling to outsiders
Here’s an example of a scientific paper that is baffling to people outside the author’s specialized field: “Satyrichthys kikingeri Pogoreutz, Vitecek & Ahnelt, 2013, a junior synonym of Satyrichthys laticeps (Schlegel, 1852) (Actinopterygii: Teleostei: Peristediidae),” Toshio Kawai, Zootaxa, vol. 3900, no. 1, 2014, pp. 135–140. Here is a photograph of the author: