Evidence for the proposition that The Law has a long reach in time and space: “United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton“. For some background on the case, see “Bones of Contention“, by Paige Williams.
The finger-in-the-dike story, updated (with coffee)
An old fable — that a young Dutch boy stuck his finger in a hole in a dike, thereby preventing disaster — has a contemporary counterpart. Reportedly this new story is true. The 24 Oranges blog reports: Fireman saves 65 coffee containers by putting foot in ship’s leak Last Friday a diver of the Schoonhoven […]
An inside, moving look at beatboxing body parts
MRI, a tool used to make images of all sorts of body parts (and sometimes, video of the motions thereof) has been used to look at beatboxing: “Para-Linguistic Mechanisms of Production in Human ‘Beatboxing’: a Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study“, Michael I. Proctor, Shrikanth Narayanan [pictured here], and Krishna Nayak, In Interdisciplinary Workshop on Singing […]
Further Info for Skyscraper Stairway Climbers
Upper floor residents of skyscrapers, at least those upper floor residents who habitually climb stairs rather than ride elevators to their homes, can find useful information in this new study: “The Energy Expenditure of Stair Climbing One Step and Two Steps at a Time: Estimations from Measures of Heart,” Lewis G. Halsey, David A. R. […]