Here is my Belshaw Donut Robot 42. My robot came configured to make 384 donuts per hour automatically. I bought it on eBay for $900, which I thought was a good deal as this particular Donut Robot normally sells for a few hundred dollars more. It was difficult to find information about the Belshaw Donut […]
About: Alice Shirrell Kaswell
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Cole’s nailed jelly
Given some jelly mixed according to standard procedures and a vertical wall, it is not possible to nail the former to the latter and have it stay there for any significant amount of time. Furthermore, these experiments were conducted by nailing the jelly to a horizontal surface which was then gradually tilted. Nailing jelly to […]
Meaty vertical integration
Vertical Integration is a business concept: combining processes, factories, or even entire companies that together constitute different stages of the manufacturing/marketing/sales process for a particular industry. Season Shot, Inc., a perhaps apocryphal company in Bloomington, Minnesota, combines some industrial elements that, traditionally, were separate. Their industry: hunting and cooking. As they explain: Season Shot is […]
Stan Wagon’s squared bicycle
Stan Wagon built a bicycle that has square wheels. It gives a wonderfully smooth ride over appropriate terrain. (Thanks to investigator Danny Lichtblau for bringing this to our attention.)
Kanzi and the marshmallow treats
Investigator Stephen Black writes: From the November 2006 issue of Smithsonian Magazine in which the psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh describes the abilities of one of her language-learning bonobos, Kanzi: “Once, Savage-Rumbaugh says, on an outing in a forest by the Georgia State University laboratory where he was raised, Kanzi touched the symbols for ‘marshmallow’ and ‘fire.’ […]
Heads-up on Dr. Headon and what’s on a head
Scientists looking at mice may have discovered why certain people are hairier than others in what could provide clues as to the reason some men go bald prematurely. So says an August 30, 2006 Medical News Today article about Dr. Denis Headon (of Manchester University) and his work. (Thanks to investigator Jane Kohner for bringing […]
Gravity and a spy
It is primarily designed to be read by scientists involved in the search for gravitational radiation who are curious about the outsider who spends so much time spying on them. I try to explain who I am and what I am doing. So says Harry Collins about his pet project. (Daniel Davies and others have […]
Beauty Tips for Ministers
PeaceBang’s Beauty Tips for Ministers is the name of a blog. The blog is all about beauty tips for ministers. Here is one of them: While we’re on the subject of clean cutting, fellas, I’m seeing FOOD IN BEARDS at collegial gatherings. I am seeing UNTRIMMED GOATEES. I am seeing SIDES OF ‘STACHES THAT DRIP […]
Animating impossible objects
But is it possible to create an interactive impossible object, that is, an impossible object that can be viewed from any angle? This paper explores the creation of such objects on the computer. So say Chih W. Khoh and Peter Kovesi in their paper “Animating Impossible Objects.” (Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this […]
Research into research into research
Research into research can be improved That’s the headline on a November 17, 2006 press release issued by the Karolinska Institute. The press release goes on to say: The methods used to evaluate the quality of research can be far more accurate and far-reaching, according to a new doctoral thesis on bibliometrics from Karolinska Institutet […]