This is another drawing by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. Moon has been a scholar of the Ig Nobel Prizes since she was a young teenager. This one celebrates Ig Nobel Public Health Prize that was awarded in the year 2010 to Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety […]
This new paper somehow avoids saying the most important thing it could say: Santa Claus, like everyone else, ought to be diligent about getting an annual flu shot. The study is: “What would happen if Santa Claus was sick? His impact on communicable disease transmission,” Yuki Furuse, The Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 211, no. […]
This passage (circa 1799) from London’s Religious Tract Society gives a bracingly cheery view on medical afflictions. The document is called Pithy Papers on Singular Subjects. It says: One man thinks that the sea separates distant countries from each other, but there are seafaring men who say that the ocean joins them. Now, this latter […]
Mike the Mad Biologist writes, in his blog: During the last week, I’ve come across a couple sensationalist article about E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus being found on common surfaces. Here’s one article about shopping carts and E. coli… And here’s an article about Staphylococcus aureus (those S. aureus resistant to methicillin–and often other antibiotics–are […]