The effect of centrifugal birthing on an art critic

Rachel Lavin writes in The University Times, about Science Gallery [Dublin]‘s “Fail Better” exhibition:

Some of the highlights are Christopher Reeve’s wheelchair, Samuel Beckett’s original manuscript drafts of Westward Ho, and most intriguingly, a human birthing machine that earned itself an Ig Nobel Prize. The machine has been rebuilt for viewing and is available to stare at in utter disbelief at in the exhibition. It was originally intended to help women deliver babies through centrifugal force. For all you non-physics students, this basically involved strapping the woman to a bed and spinning her until the baby popped out, into a somewhat inadequate net that resembles a small goal. This is a must-see…