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An Endless Source of the Bizarre

Sep 16, 2009

Blogger Rob at Baylab shares this gem of a site. NCBI ROFL points out "scientific humour gold," as Rob puts it, in PubMed. The site is the brainchild of two UC Berkeley graduate students and yesterday they pointed out an article called Chewing gum bezoars of the gastrointestinal tract and before that was Spontaneous pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, and pneumopericardium in a 16-year-old drug-abusing motorcyclist surrounded by a pack of coyotes. The second one they say must have been a pretty bad day.

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