ASTROPHYSICIST GETS MAGNETS STUCK UP HIS NOSE

An Australian astrophysicist was trying to invent an alarm that keeps people from touching their face, and ended up getting four small magnets stuck up his nose. Dr. Daniel Reardon, 27, a research fellow at Swinburne University in Melbourne who studies pulsars and gravitational waves, was working on a system involving a wristband that, when it comes near your face, sets off an alarm. He was using powerful neodymium magnets. He clipped two to each nostril. But when he detached the outside magnets, the two inside stuck together – so he tried to use the remaining magnets to remove them. They kept getting further up his nose. He tried to use pliers, but they quickly became magnetized. His partner took him to the hospital where she works because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at him. Doctors were able to manually remove the magnets from his nose.
* It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know not to stick things up your nose. But in this case, it did.
* Could have been worse. His nose could have gotten stuck to the refrigerator.
* 27 years old. Too young to remember those tiny, extremely strong Buckyball magnets that had to be pulled off the market ’cause so many people were as dumb as this guy.
* Back to the drawing board. His next idea is a portable battery that electrocutes your fingertips when they get near your face.