FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE Large kidney stones typically mean eye-watering pain and sudden urinary blockage until the stone “passes” (often requiring expensive sound-wave treatment to break up a large stone). Michigan State University urologist David Wartinger told The Atlantic in September that he had recently happened upon a pain-free–even exciting!–way to pass stones before they … [Read more...] about NOTW: Best kidney stone removal method ever and one really busy giant tortoise
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NOTW: Insanity defined, weird science and aging pickpockets
INSANITY DEFINED Police and prosecutors in Dallas, appropriately sensitive at having been the site of the 1963 killing of John F. President Kennedy, have apparently taken out their shame on assassination buff Robert Groden. As the Dallas Observer reported in September, Groden has been ticketed by police dozens of times for operating book sales booths near the “grassy knoll” … [Read more...] about NOTW: Insanity defined, weird science and aging pickpockets