Abstract
Peter Barss worked as clinical physician, surgeon, hospital director, and teacher in rural Papua New Guinea and Angola for 10 years. Falling coconuts were a common cause of severe and sometimes fatal injuries. He won the 2001 Ig Nobel prize in medicine for a 1984 paper on the phenopmenon. He now works as an associate professor in the United Arab Emirates. Livia Puljak caught up with him
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