A scholarly paper about a ritual monster of Spain appears to have a monstrously loooooooooong abstract, which you can see if you click the link on the title: “Tarasca: ritual monster of Spain,” David D. Gilmore, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 152, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 362-82. The author is at Stony brook University.
Why We Move Our Eyes While Trying to Remember?
Does this study seem familiar to you? Did you move your eyes while trying to remember? “Why do we move our eyes while trying to remember? The relationship between non-visual gaze patterns and memory,” Dragana Micic, Howard Ehrlichman and Rebecca Chen, Brain and Cognition, 2010 Dec;74(3):210-24. The authors, at City University of New York (CUNY), […]
On Biting in Sport(s)
The clip above shows (amongst others) the now-famous 2014 FIFA World Cup biting-incident featuring Luis Suárez. One might ask, and indeed some have, what are the ethical and philosophical implications of such an act? Bearing in mind that : “A prohibition against biting an opponent is not included in the rules of most contact sports, […]
Dr. Samsung will see you now (new patent)
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. of Korea has just received a US patent for a ‘Vital sign measurement robot and control method thereof’. The company’s humanoid(ish) walking robot can not only measure a patient’s basic vital signs, (pulse rate, etc) but can also perform a series of complex medical examinations. Here he/she/it is performing an […]