This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Hair pulling — Yes, when someone pulls your hair – if you have enough hair that someone can pull it – it hurts. But the truth of why that is, and some of the how much and […]
A TV crew from Thai PBS visited Akira Horiuchi, the doctor who won the 2018 Ig Nobel Prize for medical education, for performing the first self-colonoscopy: https://www.thaipbs.or.th/program/Dohiru/episodes/61187
Scott Lafee‘s Wellnews syndicated column often presents tidbits about things that have won Ig Nobel Prizes. Here’s the most recent (August 19, 2019): Ig Nobel Apprised The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate achievements that make people laugh and then think — a look at real science that’s hard to take seriously and even harder to ignore. […]
News.com.au reports: Nobel winner’s device listens to your gut A non-invasive way for detecting gut disorders could replace the dreaded colonoscopy, West Australian researchers say Gut disorders could be detected without the need for dreaded, invasive colonoscopies thanks to an invention by West Australian researchers, led by a Nobel Prize laureate. A University of WA […]