The race is on to make and market a defibrillator for the brain! Here are some of the contestants. 1. This: “Stroke thrombolysis: Is tissue plasminogen activator a defibrillator for the brain?” A M Buchan and T E Feasby, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2000 January 11; 162(1): 47–48. The authors are at the Department of Clinical […]
Month: February 2012
Almost-poisoning pigeons in the park
As the heavens inevitably cover every mountain peak with snow, so do pigeons unstoppably deposit a protective white layer atop every outdoor statue – or so people believed. Yukio Hirose shocked and delighted the world by disproving one of these two supposedly eternal truths. He used arsenic to do it. Chemistry provides a way to communicate […]
Milking merry-go-round (you know, for cows)
Rotary milking parlors for cows are just what the name says they are. This video (HT Bug Girl) shows one in action. The action heats up soon after the 1:50 mark, with faster music, and a few sights that verge on milking porn. Below it is a technical drawing from one of the several rotary milking […]
Pad or Publish-But-Perish
Richard Van Noorden writes, in Nature, about a study published in Science: Researchers feel pressure to cite superfluous papers One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published. The figures, from a survey published […]