Some, alas not all, doctors strive for plain language. The headline of this medical report contains plain language: “A Real Airhead,” Declan McDonnell and Gillian Park, BMJ Case Reports, epub November 25, 2014. The authors, at Southampton General Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK, report: “A 21-year-old man was taken to the emergency department after […]
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Hitting-yourself-in-the-head for profit, hypothesized
If you repeatedly bang yourself in the head, with the proper force, in the proper spots, someone will throw money at you. That appears to be the idea explained and (with the exception of the money) demonstrated in this video: The person hitting herself in the head identifies herself as Erica Awakening. She provides further […]
The recent further adventures of Troy Hurtubise: whacked in the head
In these videos, both from the same event in late 2013, in Nippissing, Ig Nobel Prize winner Troy Hurtubise demonstrates his technology that protects him, to some degree, even when a large man whacks Troy in the head with a baseball bat: Here’s a Nippissing News report about the festive occasion. BONUS (possibly, but not necessarily, unrelated): […]
Head nods of the third kind
Previous research on human head nodding has shown that : “[…] head nods can function in a range of ways either as initiating actions designed to elicit particular responses from recipients (‘first position’), or as responding actions (‘second position’).” But, as recently as 2011 a new variant of head nod was described in the literature […]