Video of an autopsy of a snowman (via onetruemedia, HT Jennifer Ouellette): BUTT: For general background to this phenomenon, we recommend Dr Butt’s study: “Patterns of death among avalanche fatalities: a 21-year review,” Jeff Boyd, MBBS, Pascal Haegeli, PhD, Riyad B. Abu-Laban, MD MHSc, Michael Shuster, MD, John C. Butt, MD CM, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 […]
Tag: Death
A joining of dark interests in London—Nov 30
Two subjects we’ve written about will come together in London on November 30. John Troyer, the man behind this (The Ghoulish State of Necrophilia Law) and this (Corpse case arises anew, again) will talk at a showing of the documentary film about this (The First Lady of Miniature CSI). It will happen at a venue […]
Cool way to begin a science story (jeans)
The Surprising Science blog gave a mighty cool beginning to this report: The Myth of the Frozen Jeans Levi Strauss advises freezing your jeans to kill the germs that make them smelly, thereby saving the water you’d use in washing them. Don’t bother, says Stephen Craig Cary, a University of Delaware expert on frozen microbes, who wrote to us from Antarctica….
Death by chili pepper?
Katherine Gammon, writing for Life’s Little Mysteries, interviewed 1999 Ig Nobel Prize winner (for developing a spiceless jalapeno chili pepper) Paul Bosland a pointed question: Can Eating Too Much Spicy Food Kill You? What exactly are the health impacts of eating really hot chili peppers? Can eating too much of the spicy stuff kill you? To answer this […]