Category: research

The man who found out (Coffin)

Public Domain Golden Age Comics

As with all opioids, there have also been reports of illicit use on the street, where it is (incorrectly) known as “morphine lollipops”, and in the US as “perc-a-pop”, and sells for between $5–25, depending on its dose.

(Japanese soldiers kept alive POWs for meat.)

From Rob S.:

– “He was dubbed the “Vacuum Kitten Killer” by a Facebook group started in December 2010 to track down the man responsible for posting a video on YouTube of the kitten deaths.”
– “On what appears to be his own website, Magnotta defends himself as a victim of cyber stalking.”

Symptoms:
– Hyper-flexible joints
– Unstable joints that are prone to: sprain, dislocation, subluxation and hyperextension
– Chronic degenerative joint disease
– Swan neck deformity of the fingers
– Stretchy ligaments and tendons

When in doubt, staple an airplane to the roof.

“Milton (1973) warned of the impact of the delivery of a prognosis, and how many of his patients, upon receiving their prognosis, simply turned their face to the wall and died an extremely premature death: “… there is a small group of patients in whom the realisation of impending death is a blow so terrible that they are quite unable to adjust to it, and they die rapidly before the malignancy seems to have developed enough to cause death. This problem of self-willed death is in some ways analogous to the death produced in primitive peoples by witchcraft (“Pointing the bone”).””

“These audiences pushed, shoved, argued and, as the vomiting character in the centre of Figure 1 suggests, the crush could be tight. Recorded incidents in the nineteenth century include a terrific squeeze at the Opera House in 1830, where there were ‘torn clothes and a few fainting fits’”

Blackhall fodder: Original source for Fagin. (Hobart, and back, and then back again.)

Cattle and horses may become habituated to locoweed and seek it out, even when good forages are available. […] Affected animals exhibit ataxia, emaciation, staggering, and proprioceptive deficits.

According to the laboratory’s Dr. Markus Kuhn, it was “impossible” for the card to detect anything and it had “absolutely nothing to do with the detection of TNT”. The card could not be programmed, had no memory, no microprocessor and no form of information could be stored on it. Despite the high cost of the devices, the cards were worth only about two to three pence (3–5¢) each. Kuhn commented: “These are the cheapest bit of electronics that you can get that look vaguely electronic and are sufficiently flat to fit inside a card.