Dr. Trisha Pashricha gave a 24/7 lecture at this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. She subsequently posted a video clip of it on Instagram, saying: Watch me explain to a room full of actual Nobel laureates how we discovered that taking your smartphone to the bathroom was linked to an increased risk of hemorrhoids. The […]
If you were unfortunate enough to be suffering from hemorrhoids, would you consider applying 350 volt electric shocks to the affected area – supplied via an electric fish? Improbable though it may seem, such practices were well known in Roman times – predating modern TENS machines by some 2000 years. “Ecclesiastes 1:9 states that there is […]