The stethoscope [pictured here right] has almost become synonymous with medical practice – it is useful particularly for listening to patients’ chests and abdomens. A perhaps less well known piece of ‘medical equipment’ is the tumbler (drinking glass) [pictured here below]. Pressing a transparent tumbler against a rash and noting whether the rash fades or not […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Help! I’m Sweating!
If you like to yell “Help! I’m Sweating”, chances are good that you will enjoy at least looking at the book called Help! I’m Sweating. Dietmar Stattkus wrote it. The book begins with a modest claim: All information gathered in this book was gathered and carefully checked by the author to the best of his […]
Dahl’s drummer control and communication gestures
The images below are from Sofia Dahl‘s analysis of control gestures and communication gestures in drummers, Dahl is an assistant professor at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She will perform on the Ig Nobel Tour of Scandinavia, in Aarhus (on Monday and Tuesday, March 27) and Odense (on Wednesday, March 28) .
The elusive Lippman and his flatulence on paper
Scicurious writes about “the elusive Lippman” and his fairly famous flatulence study. Here’s an excerpt (of the writing about that, not of Lippman‘s study): …I searched some more, but no one seemed to have the paper. Finally he and I tracked down the elusive Lippman, who is on the Editorial Board of the Annals of […]