Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 153

Your buttocks

The Callipygian Venus, literally meaning “Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks is a roman statue, housed in Naples.

Changizi in 2011 hypothesised it is a throwback through evolution when we needed to grip tree branches in the wet as monkeys.

Several other studies have tried to disprove this by getting volunteers to handle marbles and have shown no difference whether you have wrinkled fingers or not.

Changizi feels a real life experiment should involve locomotion to prove his theory.  Any Parkour enthusiasts out there? [Reference]

Impending tamponade. It is represented with an alternating QRS complex.

However, it is very unlikely you will see this pre- tamponade, I suspect there maybe be a few other clues (i.e that low BP you are worrying about).

Maybe someone with a very large pericardial effusion with developing tamponade physiology it could be possible. [Reference]

Query

In 1937, Edward Holbrook Derrick (1898–1976) first described Q fever after investigating a 1935 outbreak of a febrile illness among abattoir workers in Brisbane, Australia. The illness was named Q (for query) fever because the etiology of the new malady was so elusive.

Burnet and Freeman isolated the organism from blood samples and identified it as a Rickettsia species in 1937 (although now its a proteobacterium like legionella).

Primarily disseminated as an aerosol via inhalation or ingestion, Cox and Davis identified vector transmission when the organism was isolated from ticks at Nine Mile Creek in Montana in 1938. As a result of this discovery, the causative organism subsequently became known as Coxiella burnetii (Named after Cox and Burnet).

• Derrick EH. “Q” fever, new fever entity: clinical features, diagnosis and laboratory investigation. Med J Aust. 1937;2:281–299 [Reprint: Rev Infect Dis. 1983;5(4):790-800.]
• Burnet F M, Freeman M. Experimental studies on the virus of Q fever. Med J Aust. 1937;2:299–302. [Reprint: Rev Infect Dis. 1983;5(4):800-8.]
• Davis G E, Cox H R. A filter-passing infectious agent isolated from ticks. I. Isolation from Dermacentor andersoni, reactions in animals, and filtration experiments. Public Health Rep. 1938;53:2259–2261
• Maurin M, Raoult D. Q Fever. Clin Microbiol Rev. 1999 Oct;12(4):518-53.

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According to a 2004 paper listing the relative prevalence of different fetishes in chat rooms. This was published in the International Journal of Impotence Research (when you try to explain yourself to the bouncer). [Reference]