This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Suck it up— Reader Simon Leach responded to Feedback’s call for papers in which The Title Tells You Everything You Need to Know with a cheery “Well, you asked for it!”. The “it” was a copy of […]
Fish (specifically sturgeon) leaping into the air and colliding with young human boaters are biggest stars in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Nicole Sharp — tells about: Injuries from leaping sturgeon— “Sturgeons Versus Surgeons: Leaping Fish Injuries at a Level 1 Trauma Center,” Jason P. […]
Here are some legal looks at behavior that leads to treadmill injuries: “Treadmill injuries: An analysis of case law,” JoAnn M.Eickhoff-Shemek [pictured here], ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal 14, no. 1 (2010): 39-41. Here are some visual looks at behavior that leads to treadmill injuries:
Bullfighting injuries to humans tend to cluster in certain places, explains this survey: “Matador Versus Taurus: Bull Gore Injury,” Mark Sheldon Lloyd, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, vol. 86, 2004, pp. 3–5. (Thanks to James Harkin for bringing this to our attention.) The author [pictured here], at Queen Victoria Hospital, East […]
