News reports (in the Israeli newspaper Globes, in the NANOJV defense intelligence blog, and elsewhere) say that on Wednesday, December 22, Israel’s army is going to test a new tank-defense system by firing live anti-tank missiles at a tank that contains two of its own soldiers. (Thanks to investigator Yossi Levi for bringing this to […]
Month: December 2010
Perception of Electric Toothbrushes
“The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perception of Electric Toothbrushes,” Massimiliano Zampini, S. Guest, and Charles Spence, Journal of Dental Research, vol. 82, no. 11, 2003, pp. 929–32. Zampini and Spence were awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in nutrition for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person […]
Differential gears: The Movie
A ten-minute-long 1930’s extravaganza presentation about differential gears (Thanks to investigator Jennifer Hurley for bringing this to our attention): BONUS: Video of a much older AND younger set of differential gears: the antikythera mechanism; and of a logo version of same.
Dimple Creation – a fresh approach
“Dimples on cheeks are considered cute by many.” and ” The demand for surgically created dimples is increasing.” But both of the traditional methods for dimple-creation, i.e. blind coring of the soft tissue from the buccal mucosa to the dermis, or the placement of transcutaneous sutures – can be associated with untoward side effects. Thus […]