A Quick and Accurate Estimation of Heat Losses from a Cow is the there’s-no-way-you-will-ignore-this title of a report just published in the journal Biosystems Engineering. The four scientists responsible – Zahid A Khan, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, GA Quadir and KN Seetharamu – are based at universities in India and Malaysia. They infuse the report with abundant technical detail and occasionally strained grammar. Their method, they assure us, “can be used by any user to predict quickly accurate amount of heat loss from a cow”….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.