The number of murders on British television murder shows is to die for, if you are the sort that lives for that variety of entertainment. This study takes a narrow, sharp plunge into the relevant facts: “Misrepresentation of UK homicide characteristics in popular culture,” J. Brown, N.S. Hughes, M.C. McGlen, and J.H.M. Crichton, Journal of […]
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Testing pumpkin-carving knives on cadaver arms
The knifing of pumpkins, an innocent-seeming yet carefully planned act of mutilation, sometimes results (accidentally or otherwise) in sprays, bits and smatterings of human, as well as vegetable, gore. In such cases, blood –human blood – flows, drips and coagulates. A hands-on experiment, or rather, an experiment on hands, in 2004, tried to determine the […]
Hands-On Experiment: The Safety of Pumpkin Carving Tools
A hands-on experiment, or rather, an experiment on hands,tried to determine the safety of pumpkin carving tools. Details are in the study: “The Safety of Pumpkin Carving Tools,” Alexander M. Marcus, Jason K. Green, and Frederick W. Werner, Preventive Medicine, vol. 38, 2004, pp. 799–803. (Thanks to investigator Kurt Verkest for bringing this to our […]
There was a young woman who swallowed a knife…
We hope that someone will ask Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, Ig Nobel medicine prize-winning co-authors of the study “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects“, for their take on this case report newly published in the New England Journal of Medicine: “Unexpected Swallowing of a Knife,” Aida Venado, and Sarah Prebil, N Engl J Med 2012; […]