New Year’s Fireworks, Wild Geese Chased, Fish and Arms, Caller Pre-ID

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: New Year’s Eve Adventures — Happy New Year to ears, noses and throats – and to the people who minister to them! Julia Werz at Ulm University Hospital, Germany, and three colleagues began the celebration early, publishing the […]

A blood-y good documentary from the 1950s

Hemo the Magnificent is a documentary about the human blood circulatory system. Directed by Frank Capra for the Bell Telephone System (for the public good, and for good garnering goodwill), it stars comic actor Sterling Holloway, cartoon voice performers Mel Blanc and June Foray, and two more somber-seeming hosts. Part 1: Part 2: (HT Bella Seaberg) BONUS: By […]

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