Sunday Silliness: nail that Jell-O to a wall edition

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Mythbusters is a great show, but there are some pressing questions they just don’t answer:  How much alcohol can you get into a Jell-O shot?  How do you make ballistics gelatin at home?  How many condoms can you wear at once?  Fortunately, My Science Project has these answers and more.

Not a joke

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When I saw a link to a story titled “Song Helps 3-Year-Old Call 911 for Mom,” I fully admit that the first song that jumped into my head was the wrong song.

Fat man crashing

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In a motor vehicle crash, is that fat pad on your belly as soft as you think?

Naming rights

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There’s not much sillier than finding a name for your trial, then figuring out words to make it an acronym.

Should have sold the naming rights

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Since the famous Dr. Peter Safar did most of his work on resuscitation at the University of Pittsburgh, it was only fitting that Pitt’s center for resuscitation science should be named after him.  When Virginia Commonwealth University chose to create a similar hotbed of research, someone apparently noticed that VCU could have a few letters added [...]

Sunday Silliness: hike the Golden Arches edition

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Via William Gibson’s blog, a treat that he describes as “as solid an icon of Progress as we’ve seen this year:”  the cheeseburger in a can; I must admit I agree with this writer that this is “both the best and worst thing I’ve ever seen.”

My achy breaky (holey) heart

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There aren’t too many things that can go wrong with a chest decompression…until they do.

Passing that danged NREMT-P exam

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Now we have proof that patient volume and passing the National Registry exam go together like peas and carrots.

Sunday Silliness: if your dad is a Mythbuster edition

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Strangely, not only did the Mythbusters not build the world’s first jet-powered beer cooler, the guy who did so managed to pull it off years before that show’s first episode–and, strangely, doesn’t even seem to be an American (which I thought was a prerequisite for something this overwrought).  How many dads wouldn’t want something this powerfully impractical?

Directory assistance

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Sometimes, even the Internet isn’t as good a reference as the mind of a medic.