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Tag: stuck

Extracting a stuck wine cork — or a new child [patent applications]

January 27, 2014 Marc Abrahams

Extracting a stuck wine cork from a bottle inspired this method for bringing a child into the world. Jorge Ernesto Odon of Argentina invented a new method for assisting the birth of a child, using an insertable, inflatable bag to grip the child’s head, in the same way one can extract a cork that has […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsbaby, birth, bottle, child, Cork, stuck, wine

Human exhaust-pipe found-object registry (2013, in one country)

December 28, 2013 Marc Abrahams

Thank you to the disturbingly many people who alerted us to this article in Deadspin: What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums This Year? As in past years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data […]

Boys Will Be Boys, Research Newsfound, objects, rectal, stuck

A Cows-Foot Bone Stuck in Her Esophagus

July 6, 2012 Marc Abrahams

This may be the only published medical account of how to remove a cows-foot bone that’s stuck in a patient’s esophagus: “A Foreign Body Larger Than the Overtube Diameter: A Case of a Large Cow Foot Bone Causing Esophageal Impaction,” Arun Swaminath, MD, Aimee Lee Lucas, MD, Kristina Capiak, BFA, Amrita Sethi, MD, and Reuben […]

Research Newsbone, cow's foot, esophagus, stuck

He climbed a chimney to see an asteroid

November 9, 2011 Marc Abrahams

The strange story (stranger still as told here, machine-translated into English by the Chrome browser) of a strange man with a strangely strong desire to see an asteroid, reported (in French) in Est Republicain: He Wanted to See The Asteroid:  A Madman Stuck on a Chimney A madman who wanted to see the passage of […]

Arts and Scienceasteroid, astronomy, chimney, climb, stuck
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