As a newly discovered corona virus spreads through an increasingly anxious world, advice is being offered—and sometimes mocked—about the mundane-seeming question of facial hair. The basic safety question was investigated more than fifty years ago—and that investigation was honored ten years ago with an Ig Nobel Prize. Also: Today the Trump administration took a new […]
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Feather Duvet Lung Danger
If you were compiling a compendium of everyday household items which can pose a danger, stepladders, drain-cleaning chemicals, and hot saucepans might immediately spring to mind. Feather duvets would quite probably be considerably further down the list. But don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by their lightweight, soft and fluffy demeanour – […]
More about foam-in-the-pants
Investigator Heidi Toms read about the medical report about the hazard of having one’s pants filled with foam. Toms cautions us that foam in the pants can sometimes, at least in theory, be a good thing, provided there is not a dangerous oversufficiency of foam. She alerts us to the foam-in-pants usage described in US […]
Some medical hazards of/re pizza
Pizza is dangerous. Pizza is beneficial. If you hold either of these opinions, published research agrees with you, especially research in England and Italy. Two British studies highlight, darkly, some dangers that accompany pizza that’s served too speedily or too heartily. One, a monograph in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, explains that, whatever the good […]