Marc Schoenwiesner has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: Although there is a certain seasonal variation in the length of my hair, its average length and volume might qualify for the LFHCfS due to the duration of the Canadian winter. Also, it is “flowing” only in the sense of a radiating vector field. […]
Year: 2014
The chemistry of Breaking Bad, analyzed
Almost anyone who has seen the TV series Breaking Bad craves (or should crave) more knowledge of the chemistry presented there. This study helps supply some of that knowledge: IN ENGLISH: “The Chemistry of Breaking Bad,” Falk Harnisch [pictured here], Tunga Salthammer, Chemie in unserer Zeit, vol. 47, December 3, 2013, pp. 214-21. IN GERMAN: […]
Broke a bone skiing? Get a skiagraph.
A century ago, the word “skiagraph” was sometimes used in place of “roentgenograph”, what we now call a radiograph or x-ray image. The idea was that a “photograph” represented light reflected off the surface of the thing being photographed, while a “skiagraph”, from the Greek for “shadow”, represented a silhouette. In a 1904 article(*), Dr. […]
Digital transfer in a somewhat offhanded musician
Innovative surgery allowed a musician to resume playing the saz. Details are in this study: “Reconstruction of the left thumb with a second toe transfer in a musician’s hand,” Serhan Tuncer, Billur Sezgin, Ismail Kucuker, Basar Kaya and Suhan Ayhan, Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, epub July 4, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Ivan […]