Her students drill core samples and swab the walls with Q-Tips, daubing them onto petri dishes.

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Our favorite otolaryngologist, New York City-based Dr. Melissa Pashcow, offers one that pertains to ears: the use of Q-tips to remove ear wax.

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Q-tips only compact the wax like gunpowder in a cannon.

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