1894 Low-flying Cats (book p. 46) Physiologist und inventor Étienne-Jules Marey captured a falling cat on film – and soon after dogs, rabbits, apes and a “small, plump guinea pig” – in order to find our how they manage to land paws first. Below the fascinating original footage. So writes Reto Schneider in the web […]
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Spots and Flecks
“Differential Diagnosis of Dots, Flecks, and Specks of the Fundus,” Howard Schatz, Robert N. Johnson and H. Richard McDonald, Retina, vol. 12, no. 1, 1992, p. 67 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006982-199212010-00013). (That’s an excerpt from the article “Dots and Spots Research Review,” published in AIR 14:5.)
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“Endoscopic Removal of Sharp Foreign Bodies Impacted in the Esophagus,” Y.T. Jeen et al., Endoscopy, vol. 33, no. 6, June 2001, pp. 518—22 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2001-15090). The authors, who are at Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, explain that: The types of foreign body removed were fish bones (n = 9), press-through packages (n = 8), chicken […]
Who will win the 2012 U.S. presidential election
The Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm (Debowy and Schulman 2003) correctly predicted the outcome of the 2004 and 2008 United States presidential elections. Now that the 2012 campaign for U.S. President has officially started, Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy apply their proven algorithm to 18 potential Republican candidates for this election and […]