Experiments in Denmark explore what happens when you combine a clown, several children, and injections of botulinum toxin. Details are in the study: “Effect of a clown’s presence at botulinum toxin injections in children: a randomized, prospective study,” Lars Kjaersgaard Hansen, Maria Kibaek, Torben Martinussen [pictured here], Lene Kragh, Mogens Hej, Journal of Pain Research, vol. […]
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Tycho Brahe comes up for review again
John Mattson reports in Scientific American [with emphasis added here by us]: Brahe died at age 54 after, as the story goes, he stayed at the table too long without relieving himself during a formal dinner, possibly bursting his bladder in the process. That last legend may soon be challenged, as Brahe is being disinterred […]
Paper or Plastic? Plummeting Dead Mice
If you’re going to lace dead mice with poison, and drop them from helicopters into a rainforest in Guam in such a way that they become entangled high in the trees where they might murder the brown tree snakes, but you want to avoid (as much as possible) having the toxically tasty mouse corpses fall […]
Poison: The Perfume
Poison, the perfume (click on image, right). And a 1951 report about poison, the perfume: “Attractive wrapping of poisonous preparations a danger to children; with reference to two cases of poisoning with Maletta perfume tablets,” Sven Lakartidn. 1951 Jun 1;48(22):1364-7.