Rhinophyma: when Red Nose Day is no laughing matter

When Nitrous Oxide is No Laughing Matter

First synthesized by Joseph Priestley in 1772, the psychotropic effects of nitrous oxide were first appreciated (in the first person) by Humphrey Davy. From the time that nitrous oxide was first used for analgesia by Horace Wells in December 1844 until 1956, nitrous oxide was considered to be completely benign. Although there were two isolated case reports, the first clear association of nitrou...

Tobacco sponsorship is no laughing matter.

Condoms no laughing matter.

This multimedia project was as a beer commercial, a lad's night in, an environment that can be used to target the relevant audience. The goal was to deploy a familiar atmosphere and recognisable characters whilst delivering a serious message with humour in a very short space of time.

No laughing matter

Laughter matters! From an analysis of a very large corpus of naturally-occurring conversational speech we have confirmed that approximately one in ten utterances contains laughter. From among these laughing utterances, we were able to distinguish four types of laughter according to what each revealed about the speaker’s affective state, and we were able to recognise these different types automa...

No laughing matter.

A COUGHING MAN Last year an upper respiratory tract illness swept through our household, hitting first my youngest son, then his older brother, and finally me. Only my wife was spared. We coughed for days and days. Still, we trudged on, my sons going off to school and I to work in the hospital. My wife, the only one in our family not burdened with a Y chromosome, looked at us one night at the d...