Pain has never been so interesting.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
"The Schmidt Sting Pain Index [wikipedia link, via boingboing] or The Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a scale rating the relative pain caused by different Hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist for whom the index is named."
Not only is it informative, it's well-written. Here, have a taste:
1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
This post is dedicated to O, who will probably be stung by most of this list, if he hasn't been already. It is also dedicated to him because he's probably not doing much right now. Good luck with the ACL recovery, buddy.
1 comments:
Working my way up that list, one painful bite at a time. (Does getting shocked by various electric fences count too, cause if it does, then I'm way ahead of the curve at this point... And thanks for the well wishes
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