Film

Real Numbers, Fictional Men

By Crime HQ

 May 9, 2011

The muddied and unfinished manuscript of The First Man was found at the site of the car accident that killed Albert Camus. Perhaps this incomplete masterpiece left the world so existentially thirsty that it was woven into a trend in the world of crime fiction.  Let's look at some that came before and after. . .…

Two medical examiners looking down at operating table

Medical Bloopers: Don’t Try This At Home

By Dr. Lewis Preschel

 April 25, 2011

When Mel Gibson slaps his dislocated shoulder back into place in any of the Lethal Weapon films ad nauseum, I always cringe. I don’t cringe because it’s painful, which I assure you it would be. But because, reducing a dislocation that way, a real person would inevitably fracture the humerus, the long bone of the…