Today, February 22, is International Sword Swallowers Day, created by sword swallower — and Ig Nobel Prize winner — Dan Meyer, who also created the organization Sword Swallowers Association International, of which he serves as president. Dan, an American, together with Dr. Brian Witcombe, a Briton, shared the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine, for their penetrating […]
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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; […]
Arianna Huffington Pulls Sword From Ig Nobel Winner Dan Meyer’s Throat
The Huffington Post headline says it all: “Arianna Huffington Pulls Sword From Dan Meyer’s Mouth“. Dan shared the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine, with Dr. Brian Witcombe, for their British Medical Journal report called “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects“. Today in New York City, Dan had an intimately touching encounter with media mogul […]
Another look/talk with a swordsman
Reuters Television filmed an interview with 2007 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize co-winner Dan Meyer at Imperial College London as he was preparing for the Ig Nobel UK Tour show there last week (the video also includes brief glimpses of the show itself): Talk about a dangerous job – a professional sword swallower has co-authored a […]