Gloves, gloves, gloves. First, Michael Jackson’s, enlarged:
Creating a data source together one glove at a time.
On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt (listed below) is the culmination of data collected. It is released here for all to download and use as an input into any digital system. Just as the data was gathered collectively it is our hope that it will be visualized collectively. [Click on the image to see the video.]
And now, an older take on gloves:
“The effectiveness of double-gloving in otolaryngology,” D. Endres, T. Alun-Jones and M. S. C. Morrissey, Clinical Otolaryngology, vol. 15, no. 6, December 1990, pp. 535-536. The authors, at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK, report:
“Thirty-four sets of consecutively used double gloves (68 pairs) used by otolaryngologists and their assistants in operations known to have a high risk of glove punctures were studied. The perforation rates for the outer and inner layers were 35.3 and 8.8% respectively, indicating that a second set of gloves substantially improves the likelihood of maintaining an intact barrier between medical staff and patient.”
(Thanks to investigator Lorraine Lake for bringing the white gloves project to our attention.)