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Holidays in PubMed: Flash Yer Titties for the Red, White and Bluuuue

January 15, 2009 in Holidays In PubMed

One day in 1996, a couple of sociologists realized that their lives were unacceptably tit-free. But rather than grabbing a pile of singles and solving that problem the old-fashioned way, they got the good folks of Louisiana to pony up tax dollars for some, um, “research”.

To create this work of scholarly genius, they videotaped hours of Bourbon Street debauchery. Then (alone in the dark with a hand towel, one presumes) they went through the tape (twice!) to record instances of what they discreetly term “disrobement”. In the end, they had approximately 700 examples in 30 hours of tape– a relatively constant stream of girls (and boys) gone wild.

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Holidays In PubMed: Fourth Grade Humor Edition

January 6, 2009 in Holidays In PubMed

Delicate flower and celebrated saxophonist Mintygreen’s day-job involves her trawling through the human wonders/horrors of PubMed. Here she takes the intellectual high-road, and doesn’t even giggle once about “gas”, or indeed mention the “f-word”*.

This is a very special dispatch from the land of PubMed– this time around, I call your attention not just to one article, but to an entire issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. This issue is devoted, in full, to a topic of the highest importance and greatest potential for fart jokes: I speak, of course, of intestinal gas. Read the rest of this entry →

Holidays In PubMed: Draw A Penis Test (DAPT)

December 22, 2008 in Holidays In PubMed

(Our freshest and most sleepless of contributors, Mintygreen, takes us on what we hope to be a recurring journey through the medical wonders of PubMed – over to you, Minty… Ed)

My job entails frequent PubMed searches, and occasionally I stumble across the kind of article that makes it all worthwhile. Without further ado, let me present to you an excerpt from my PubMed Find of the Day:

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