Entomologist Becomes Connoisseur of Pain
Submitted by rlevine on Wed, 2011-09-21 12:34
Justin Schmidt, an entomologist at the University of Arizona, has been stung by various insects hundreds of times over the course of his career. In the mid-1980s, he decided to categorize these experiences scientifically. The result is a "pain index" that reads almost like a wine tasting guide. By 1990, Schmidt had revised the Schmidt Sting Pain Index to cover 78 species, ranking the pain intensity of their stings from zero to four.
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