From Popular Science, go here for explanations
1. Anal-Wart Researcher
?A giant anal wart can be a couple inches large and blocking the anal opening,? Jay says with her customary vigor. The bright side? ?In 13 years I?ve only been pooped on twice, and that?s not bad.?
2. Worm Parasitologist
The female Dracunculus medinensis migrates from the gut to a point just under the skin of, say, a leg, where she then commences growth to a length of as great as three feet, and where, ultimately, she lays her eggs.
3. Lab-Animal Veterinarian
?You go from someone who makes sick animals healthy to someone who makes healthy animals sick.? At one point in his career, Neil found himself taking perfectly vital, eager young beagles and surgically giving them arterial blockages to replicate heart disease.
4. Tampon Squeezer
Normally, researchers would use a centrifuge to extract fluids to be tested. But this is the one way in which the tampon is not an optimal specimen-collecting tool, because its true purpose is to hold liquid in. ?Optimal recovery,? Garland says, ?requires manual squeezing.?
5. Landfill Monitor
6. K-25 Demolition Worker
7. Ecologist at St. John?s Harbor
8. Iraqi Archaeologist
9. Tick Dragger
10. Nurse
11. Computer Help-Desk Tech
12. Congressional Science Fellow
13. Public-School Science Teacher
14. Nosologist
15. Root Sorter
16. Crank
17. Television Meteorologist
I pity the Public-School Science Teacher, but LOL at the Computer Help-Desk Tech.
1. Anal-Wart Researcher
?A giant anal wart can be a couple inches large and blocking the anal opening,? Jay says with her customary vigor. The bright side? ?In 13 years I?ve only been pooped on twice, and that?s not bad.?
2. Worm Parasitologist
The female Dracunculus medinensis migrates from the gut to a point just under the skin of, say, a leg, where she then commences growth to a length of as great as three feet, and where, ultimately, she lays her eggs.
3. Lab-Animal Veterinarian
?You go from someone who makes sick animals healthy to someone who makes healthy animals sick.? At one point in his career, Neil found himself taking perfectly vital, eager young beagles and surgically giving them arterial blockages to replicate heart disease.
4. Tampon Squeezer
Normally, researchers would use a centrifuge to extract fluids to be tested. But this is the one way in which the tampon is not an optimal specimen-collecting tool, because its true purpose is to hold liquid in. ?Optimal recovery,? Garland says, ?requires manual squeezing.?
5. Landfill Monitor
6. K-25 Demolition Worker
7. Ecologist at St. John?s Harbor
8. Iraqi Archaeologist
9. Tick Dragger
10. Nurse
11. Computer Help-Desk Tech
12. Congressional Science Fellow
13. Public-School Science Teacher
14. Nosologist
15. Root Sorter
16. Crank
17. Television Meteorologist
I pity the Public-School Science Teacher, but LOL at the Computer Help-Desk Tech.
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