A rare but catastrophic medical error..an improperly placed nasogastric (NG) tube perforated the skull instead of entering the stomach. The case is now often cited in medical training to show why older ‘air bolus’ placement checks are unsafe and why X-ray or pH confirmation is mandatory today.
Gold teeth caps were made to save physicist Alvin Graves from radioactive exposure from his own teeth after he was accidentally irradiated in a nuclear chain reaction during an infamous “Tickling the Dragon’s Tail” test in 1946 at Los Alamos, NM
Soviet style apartment complexes in Kabul, Afghanistan. Built between the 1950s and 1960s by Soviet engineers
