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Ig Nobel winner: Using pork to stop nosebleeds
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| Sep. 18, 2014
| MARK PRATT
Posted on 09/20/2014 9:48:44 AM PDT by Brother Cracker
There's some truth to the effectiveness of folk remedies and old wives' tales when it comes to serious medical issues, according to findings by a team from Detroit Medical Center.
Dr. Sonal Saraiya and her colleagues in Michigan found that packing strips of cured pork in the nose of a child who suffers from uncontrollable, life-threatening nosebleeds can stop the hemorrhaging, a discovery that won them a 2014 Ig Nobel prize, the annual award for sometimes inane, yet often surprisingly practical, scientific discoveries.
This year's winners honored Thursday at Harvard University by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: humor; ignobel; napl
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To: Brother Cracker
Bacon! It’s good for what ails ya. Have some today!
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posted on
09/20/2014 9:54:19 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
To: Ray76
Expecting muslim protests and beheadings in 5...4...3...
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posted on
09/20/2014 9:57:20 AM PDT
by
Bob
To: Bob
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posted on
09/20/2014 10:01:42 AM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Brother Cracker
“Well, we’ve tried everything else, might as well have a go with cured pork strips.”
(Is it the curing salts?)
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posted on
09/20/2014 10:02:46 AM PDT
by
Moltke
("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
To: Moltke
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posted on
09/20/2014 10:09:37 AM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Brother Cracker; Gefn; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:04:09 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:12:11 AM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Slings and Arrows
Thank you for the ping, I think? [cough]
To: TheOldLady
Just doing my part for health care education.
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:20:50 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
To: Brother Cracker
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:26:30 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Brother Cracker
I knew a guy that died from a nosebleed.
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:30:19 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Better a nosebleed then a moose bite, I always say
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:37:08 AM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:39:01 AM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Brother Cracker
In the end, as Hillary Clinton would say “what difference does it make”.
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:39:24 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: Brother Cracker
Ha! I knew I was right, and after all this time I am finally vindicated!
(see tagline) *grin*
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posted on
09/20/2014 11:39:54 AM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them-)
To: Utilizer
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posted on
09/20/2014 12:02:27 PM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
To: Brother Cracker
Oh, yes. Yes indeedy! *huge grin*
A bookmark for every page.
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posted on
09/20/2014 12:05:19 PM PDT
by
Utilizer
(Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them-)
To: Brother Cracker
PERFECT!!!!
Can also be used to plug muzzie bullet wounds and infection proof dressing.
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posted on
09/20/2014 12:08:23 PM PDT
by
biff
(WAS)
To: biff
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posted on
09/20/2014 12:37:45 PM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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