Schmidt’s pain scale runs from one to four, with four being the most painful. “You should have learned, but the carpet is the same, and when you again reach for the light switch, the shock mocks you.” ...

Ever wonder what hurts more - a honey bee sting or a paper wasp's jab? Justin O. Schmidt did more than wonder. This intrepid ...

Ranked a level 4 on Schmidt’s Pain Scale, the bullet ant causes intense, terrible pain that lasts for around 24 hours. Those who have been stung by this ant claim the pain is similar to a bullet ...

Early in his career, Justin Schmidt realized he had a problem. There was no scale that measured the pain of insect stings. Schmidt, a budding entomologist, had just returned to the University of ...

To assess venom, Schmidt needed to evaluate both toxicity and pain. Toxicity was straightforward - already existing measures could be used. But there was no existing scale to measure the pain of ...