Life’s Little Supreme Ironies

[What follows is a list of ironic events or things. Although I feel I’ve only scratched the surface, it was difficult to come up with even ten. Anyone else know any legitimate ironies?] A pet bird dying in a plane crash. Being beaten to death by a pacifists’ bodyguards. A financial planner who takes a […]

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Greatest Advances in Medicine

Trepanning: When a caveman got hurt, they were pretty ineffectual… yelling, “Do something! Anything!”. And, trepanning definitely counts as “anything”. Trepanning is the act of boring into the skull, which most people needed like a hole in the head. What’s most surprising is not that early man bored holes in the cranium to treat conditions […]

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