“The Paper Clip Nasal Dilator” is one of several studies featured in the article “The Paper Clip in Medicine,” which is one of the articles in the special Medical Surprises issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, which is one of the 143 issues published so far! Subscribe to the magazine, and a new batch of fresh-cooked improbable research […]
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Medical uses for paperclips
Paperclips are widely acknowledged to be excellent devices for temporarily fastening together sheets of paper, but it should also be noted that the imagination of medical practitioners has, over the years, generated quite a number of alternative and original uses for them. Here are but a few examples: 📎 Paper Clip Localization: Easy Technique for […]
How Sexy can a Paper Clip get? (study)
In 2016, Prof. Dr. Georg Felser of Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany, undertook a unique research study aimed at establishing whether everyday objects can be somehow be imbued with ‘sexiness’ in order to enhance returns in advertising campaigns. His experimental study found that, yes, they can – even if the object is paper clip. […]
Dental Paper Clips, Then and Now
A news report from Fall River, Massachusetts recalls a beloved dental study about a paper clip. The report in the Boston Globe, says: “A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of putting paper clips in patients’ mouths during root canals, then billing Medicaid for the stainless steel posts he should have used.” The classic study is: […]
The Paper Clip and The Law
The paper clip plays a variety of roles, all small, in legal history. That smallness looms large in Jay W Stein’s gripping study Something Little and Shiny on the Judicial Stage: The Paper Clip. The study, published in 1994 in the Law Library Journal, established Stein as the first and finest scholar of the effect […]