make your science sexy
January 7, 2009 at 7:15 pm | sam | crazy figure contest, hardware, literature, science and the public, science@homeThis machine is the closest some graduate students get to the Real Thing:
“Finally, theories proposed for the mechanism of breakage were investigated on a laboratory coital model.”
Source: White, N.; Hill, D.; Bodemeier, S. Male condoms that break in use do so mostly by a “blunt puncture” mechanism. Contraception 2008, 77, 360-365. (Also reported in Nature’s news section here.)
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Do you think it’s a coincidence Figure 3 happened to be of failure report #69?
Comment by Kendall — January 7, 2009 #
I’m not sure what your definition of the “Real Thing” is, but I’m guessing it has something to do with a penis that’s bigger than my forearm. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Comment by excimer — January 8, 2009 #
ACK! My virgin eyes!
Comment by Carolina — January 8, 2009 #
So a grad student that does that work — where do you go to postdoc? What’s your job prospects? Is Trojan a good place to work?
Comment by Chemjobber — January 8, 2009 #
Bet you can buy that on ebay.
Comment by jordan — January 8, 2009 #
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that”
Only as long as it stays hella far away from me! That thing is GINORMOUS AND SCARY.
Comment by psi*psi — January 8, 2009 #