[mini-AIR] mini-AIR: impatient patients

Sun Aug 15 19:14:28 EDT 2021

mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
July 2020, issue number 2021-07. ISSN 1076-500X.
	<https://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/>

  WE SOMEHOW MANAGED TO FORGET 
  TO SEND THE JULY ISSUE IN JULY.
  SO HERE IT IS, IN AUGUST.
 THE AUGUST ISSUE WILL (PROBABLY) APPEAR SOON, TOO.

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  Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
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01 TABLE OF CONTENTS

02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: Haphazardness
03 An Impatient Patient
04 Early Glimpse Ahead to the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
05 Limerick Challenge: Watch Out for the Impatient Patient
06 Garlic Balmer Winner
07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Beethoven, Gourds/Glee, Lookback
08 Yesteryear's Today's Impatient Patient
20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS
30 — Subscribe to the Actual Magazine! (*)
31 — How to start or stop receiving this little newsletter (*)
32 — Contact Info (*)
33 — Standard Gobbledegook (*)

	Items marked (*) are reprinted in every issue.

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02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: Haphazardness

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03 An Impatient Patient

This month's maybe-random research item:

"An Impatient Patient," Julia Cohen-Lévy, Journal of Dentofacial Anomalies and Orthodontics 13, no. 1, 2010, pp. 91-93. 
<https://doi.org/10.1051/odfen/2010108> The author reports:

"Mr. B, aged 16, with no particular prior history, consulted us about the unsightly positioning of his upper right canine, which had begun to trouble him (fig. 1 a). His family dentist had suggested that no action be taken… But the patient was in despair: for two years the tooth had not budged. He asked for immediate orthodontic treatment….
Rhizomegaly or radiculomegaly, the phenonomon of extremely long-rooted teeth, is rare…. Observers describe the dental eruption of these teeth being both slow and delayed, and the formation of their apices as 'obscure'."

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04 Early Glimpse Ahead to the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

Preliminary peeks at the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony are on the ceremony web page:
<https://www.improbable.com/ig/2021-ceremony/>

The webcast will happen on Thursday, September 9, 2021.
There will be special versions in Japanese and (probably) Spanish, as well as the traditional English.

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05 Limerick Challenge: Watch Out for the Impatient Patient

This month's RESEARCH LIMERICK challenge — Devise a pleasing limerick that encapsulates this study:

"Watch Out for the Impatient Patient," J. Bates, Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing), vol. 31, no. 28, 2017, p. 33.
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28271769/>

Submit your perfectly formed, delightfully enlightening limerick to:

	IMPATIENT PATIENT LIMERICK COMPETITION
	c/o <MARC aaattt IMPROBABLE dddooottt COM>

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06 Garlic Balmer Winner

The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:

"A Chemical Burn from a Garlic Poultice Applied to the Face to Treat Toothache: A Case Report," D. Sisson and C. Balmer, Primary Dental Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2014, pp. 28-29. 
<https://doi.org/10.1308%2F205016814812136057>

Winning LIMERICIST LAURA PEEBLES writes:

If a toothache is bothering you
Here’s an Internet cure to eschew:
  Garlic smashed on your face.
  Instead take your case
To the dentist who knows what to do.

This month's take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:

Both dentists and patients, I swear
There are internet nostrums out there.
  They claim that they cure,
  But they're harmful, for sure.
I know, since I read it somewhere.

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07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Beethoven, Gourds/Glee, Lookback

Recent improbable research bits you may have missed...

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* Further Persecution of a Corpse: Beethoven and His Metronome
* A Life of Glee and Gourds
* A Look Back at Some Improbable Dramatic Readings
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* Episode #1077: "Danger Assessment of Holy Water"
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08 Yesteryear's Today's Impatient Patient

"Today's Impatient Patient," David Schwab, Journal of the American Dental Association, vol. 128, no. 12, 1997, pp. 1646-1649.
<https://doi.org/10.14219/jada.archive.1997.0123>

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20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS

Readercon						—Aug 14, 2021
2021 IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY	—Sep 9, 2021
Ig Nobel Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan	—Sep 9-Nov 3, 2021
2021 Ig Informal Lectures			—TBA 2021

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30 — Subscribe to the Actual Magazine! (*)

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33 — Standard Gobbledegook (*)

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