Thanks to Martin G of ohpurleese.com for reminding us about the enlightening press release , issued in the year 2000, about University of Illinois Professor Brian Wansink‘s reported discovery that ?people’s soup choices reflect their personality types.?
Papa of Ping
Computer science cognoscenti know what Ping is, and also know that Mike Muuss is the proud author of same. (Thanks to Dan Piette for bringing this to our attention.)
Bovine butt simulator for docs
Veterinarians must learn, somehow, to examine the inside of a cow. The definition of "somehow" is now broader than it used to be, thanks to Sarah Baillie‘s haptic cow hind simulator at the University of Glasgow. The official description of this device is almost lyrical: Veterinary students are trained to palpate the bovine reproductive tract […]
Big bang theories (medical)
Here is a brief guide to some unfortunate explosions of a particular type. The details sit quietly in back issues of medical journals. Only occasionally does anyone come to see them. The visitor is, in most cases, either a doctor in sudden need of information or a scholar in search of violent titillation…. So begins […]