lol - gives a whole new meaning to the expression, "knitted brow" - As for the penis guy, it just leaves me speechless...
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : ---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote : From Lilly's The Center of the Cyclone: "Professor Bazett taught me this unequivocally. When he wanted to find out what the end organs (the sensitive endings within the skin) were, he performed experiments with a cold bath alternating with a hot bath to determine the temperature-sensitive endings in the foreskin of his penis. He marked these with ink, had himself circumcised and found through microscopic sectioning and staining techniques the end organs responsible for the sensations that he had recorded." Ouch! That beats Newton who spent a night bending his eyes out of shape with knitting needles to try and work out how light worked as it went through the lens. Groundbreaking and very painful... Makes you wonder how many of today's scientists have the right stuff to expand our knowledge of the world! There are a few, it's all in the spirit of it. This guy did us all a favour: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/07/05/when-scientists-experiment-on-themselves-h-pylori-and-ulcers/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/07/05/when-scientists-experiment-on-themselves-h-pylori-and-ulcers/ These are interesting too: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29241/11-scientists-who-experimented-themselves http://mentalfloss.com/article/29241/11-scientists-who-experimented-themselves But I was googling for the guy who got himself bitten/stung by dangerous arthropods to test vaccines. Utterly bonkers. He declared the Scolapendra (giant centipede) to be the most painful. Closely followed by the Asian giant hornet, which is soon to be spreading throughout Europe. Be afraid. I remember it from somewhere, but the fact that I couldn't find it hopefully means it was a shaggy dog story and no one was ever that stupid! But I don't recommend trying particle physics experiments on yourself, especially for people looking for cosmic consciousness. That's just going to get messy.
