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If you thought MRI scanners that explode are scary, what follows may be even more terrifying (and educative)…
From the May 2002 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment

An incident recently occurred at an outpatient imaging center in western New York State, in which a firearm spontaneously [...]

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This is for my blog & twitter friend lekhni, who asked me on twitter a few days ago.
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lekhni @scanman I’d love your thoughts on this http://www.nytimes.com/2008… 2:59 AM Oct 15th from web in reply to scanman

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The link, to an article in The New York Times, was about, as [...]

Watch this video first…

… and then read this article. Some excerpts…
A medical physicist in Alabama has noticed what could be a disturbing trend: exploding MRI magnets. Dr. Wlad Sobol of the University of Alabama-Birmingham, describes what may have caused the incidents and offers advice for avoiding potentially catastrophic incidents at medical facilities.
Wlad Sobol, PhD, a [...]

Paul C. Lauterbur, a University of Illinois professor of chemistry who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003 for his pioneering work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), died on Tuesday March 27, 2007 at his home in Urbana, Illinois. The cause of death was kidney disease. Lauterbur was 77 years [...]

A woman diagnosed as being in a vegetative state showed brain activity similar to that of healthy controls in tests of language processing and mental imagery. [1]
The 23-year-old woman had experienced traumatic brain injury in a traffic accident. Five months later, researchers (in Cambridge, UK & Liège, Belgium) used functional MRI to measure neurologic activity [...]

Mario Beauregard and Vincent Paquette of the Université de Montréal in Canada used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 15 Carmelite nuns who were asked to remember the most intense mystical experience they had ever had.
Their findings were published in Neuroscience Letters.
Abstract: The main goal of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) [...]

The human spirit of inquiry and man’s seemingly insatiable curiosity about the workings of the world around him are without question the foremost reason for the advanced stage of evolution that mankind finds itself in today.
mmmm…
Is it really so?
The doubt arises when I come across something like this post.
The NMR spectrum of ear wax that [...]