All in a Day’s Work
HUMOUR ON THE JOB92 | June• 2019
The Nutty Professor
Award Goes To ...”about the patient’s feelings and not let
my que asiness show.
That a ll changed when he turned
to me, scrunched his nose, and said,
“God, you’ve got bad breath!”
An anonymous nurse, on businessinsider.comNOSE OUT OF JOINT
Nursing can be a dirty business, as
I dis covered while helping my grumpy
patient change his colostomy bag.
You can imagine the smell. Still, I
soldiered on, telling myself to think
nCHEMISTRYThree Portuguese
researchers for measuring the
degree to which human saliva is
a good cleaning agent for dirty
surfaces.
nNUTRITIONA lecturer at
England’s University of Brighton
for calculating that
the c aloric intake from a human-
cannibalism diet is significantly
lower than the caloric intake
from most other traditional
meat diets.The Ig Nobel Prize is a tongue-in-cheek
award given each year to actual research
projects that seem – well, silly. The winners
are published in a humorous periodical,
Annals of Improbable Research.nECONOMICSResearchers
in Canada and the US for
investigating whether it is
effective for employees to use
voodoo dolls to retaliate
against a busive bosses. (Their
finding: it is!)
nBIOLOGYResearchers in
Sweden, Colombia and Germany
for demonstrating that wine
experts can reliably identify, by
smell, the presence of a single fly
in a glass of wine.