This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has six segments. Here are bits of each of them: Sweet or not, the end — Almost everyone who gets old dies. In a gross way, that brief sentence could sum up a Dutch/Danish/British study called “Use of sugar in coffee and tea and long-term risk of […]
The self-inflicted snake/electroshock saga of patient X [pictured below] turns out, 21 years after it entered the public record, to have an earlier chapter that never, until this moment, made it into print. That’s patient X, the former US marine who suffered a bite from his pet rattlesnake. Patient X, the man who immediately after […]
A classic study by Dr. Ray Fish [pictured here] could be of use to biologists and anyone else who plan to take a special course in electroshocking fish. Dr. Fish’s report is: “Electric shock, part III: Deliberately applied electric shocks and the treatment of electric injuries,” Ray Fish, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 5, […]