A TV crew from Thai PBS visited Akira Horiuchi, the doctor who won the 2018 Ig Nobel Prize for medical education, for performing the first self-colonoscopy: https://www.thaipbs.or.th/program/Dohiru/episodes/61187
Tag: self
Gassing and Braking, and the Self
2007 was a stellar year for psychological essays about gassing and braking and the self. At least one such essay was published that year, namely: “Gassing, Braking, and Self-Regulating: Error Self-Regulation, Well-Being, and Goal-Related Processes,” Michael D. Robinson, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, January 2007, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 1–16. The author, at North […]
Eva Wentink’s Self-Monitoring Toilet Musings
Eva Wentink from OnePlanet (an institute created in a partnership of Wageningen University and Research, Radboud University Nijmegen and IMEC) muses, low-key charismatically, about the need and feasibility of a self-monitoring toilet. She explains how and why she and her colleagues built three toilets: (Thanks to Michiel Scheffer for bringing this to our attention.)
Inspired, he did do-it-yourself-endoscopy [video]
The gentleman in this video writes: “September 2018 Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel prize for do-it-yourself colonoscopy. I tried another examination, Trans nasal Endoscopy (do-it-myself)”

