Burns can tell you a lot about fires. Some examples: “Use of Copper Powder Extinguishers on Lithium Fires,” by R. Burns, et al., 1994 “The application of CFD to the modelling of fires in complex geometries,” A.D. Burns, et al, 1992 “Hotel Fires Safety Tips,” A.C. Burns, 1981 “Building fire protection system and method for […]
Dr. Fish, Dr. Watts and their cetacean tubercules
“Major discoveries always come with a story: Newton had his apple, Archimedes had his bath tub, and Dr. Frank E. Fish, while shopping for a gift, examined a sculpture of a humpback whale in a shop and issued a fatefully inaccurate observation: ‘Look at that. The sculptor put the bumps on the wrong side of the flipper.’ […]
Advice: To chew or not to chew
It is not an absolute, inviolable rule that one should always chew one’s food. Whether or not this Time report is accurate, its advice at the end is basic and good: A fishmonger in southern China found a live bomb inside one of his squid. The man — identified only as Mr. Huang by the Guangzhou Daily — said that while […]
Newborns Spit Up. Some Do it More than Others.
This new study explains that some newborns spit up more than others do: “Do Newborn Infants of Ethiopian Origin Spit Up More than Other Newborn Infants?” Vered Nir, Erez Nadir, Mulunesh Mekonen and Michael Feldman, Israeli Medical Association Journal, vol. 15, January 2013, pp. 9-12. The authors write: “Infants of Ethiopian origin spit up more […]