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‘Virus-fighting’ scientist gets magnets stuck in nose

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Mar 31, 2020
‘Virus-fighting’ scientist gets magnets stuck in nose

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Daniel Reardon needed to go to hospital to have the magnets removed.

An Australian astrophysicist who wanted to produce a device to assist stop people catching the coronavirus has actually wound up in healthcare facility – after getting magnets held up his nose.

Dr Daniel Reardon came up with a strategy to create a necklace which would respond if your hands were near your face.

Regrettably, the device did not work rather as planned.

” My innovation had the opposite impact– it buzzed continually till a magnet was put close.”

‘ I knew I remained in difficulty’

” I had a laugh and quit briefly,” he informed the BBC. “Then I began mindlessly putting the magnets on my face. My ear lobes, then my nostrils– like a magnetic piercing.

” The problem was when I put magnets in my other nostril. They all pinched together, and the ones on my septum got stuck!”

The university research study fellow remained calm, however.

” Initially it harmed, however I wasn’t too stressed,” he stated. “I started to get increasingly more stressed out when I understood it wasn’t going to be insignificant to r

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