Rattlesnake bite index.
Rattlesnake bites in Arizona, US, are frequently caused by people poking sticks at them, according to Sydney medical and PhD graduate Tim Ingall.
"An emergency medicine physician friend in Phoenix has developed a 'rattlesnake bite index', the formula calculated by assessing the following variables in each patient: blood alcohol; number of tattoos; and number of teeth," he told Fairfax media.
He said the formula is: blood alcohol level multiplied by the number of tattoos and divided by the number of teeth.
STATING the bleeding obvious:
Just in time for Oktoberfest, researchers from Switzerland have invested brainpower, and presumably research funds, to discover (!) that beer drinking can act as a social lubricant.
BBC News reports University Hospital researchers in Basel tested 60 healthy people, with an equal number of men and women drinking alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer, and then taking part in a range of tasks, including a face recognition test, empathy test and sexual arousal test.
Lead researcher Prof Matthias Liechti explained, "Although many people drink beer and know its effects through personal experience there is surprisingly little scientific data on its effects on the processing of emotional social information."
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