/oss/taxonomy/term/4619/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-did-you-know/every-christmas-quirky-science-gets-shine <p>What do you call two orthopaedic surgeons reading an electrocardiogram? A double-blind study.</p> Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9769 at /oss /oss/article/medical-did-you-know/re-animating-dead-spiders-smart-toilets-licking-rocks-and-counting-nostril-hairs-2023-ig-nobel <p>While the 2023 Nobel Prize announcements have come and gone, the chatter around the winners is likely to last far longer.</p> Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000 Ada McVean M.Sc. 9697 at /oss /oss/article/health/looking-little-humour-era-covid <p>A priest a lawyer and an engineer are about to be guillotined. The priest puts his head on the block, they pull the rope and nothing happens - he declares that he's been saved by divine intervention - so he's let go. The lawyer is put on the block, and again the rope doesn't release the blade, he claims he can't be executed twice for the same crime and he is set free too.</p> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:54:19 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8295 at /oss