The US Forest Service has decided to not use its standard disposal-by-detonation procedure in the celebrated case of the forlornly frozen cows, which we described recently. MSNBC/US News reports [HT Adam Orbit, again]: Solution found for dead cows stuck in mountain cabin: saws What to do with the carcasses of six cows inside a U.S. […]
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Milking merry-go-round (you know, for cows)
Rotary milking parlors for cows are just what the name says they are. This video (HT Bug Girl) shows one in action. The action heats up soon after the 1:50 mark, with faster music, and a few sights that verge on milking porn. Below it is a technical drawing from one of the several rotary milking […]
The scientists who synchronize cows
A British-American team of scientists [co-author Mason Porter is pictured here] has produced a study called A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics and Synchronisation of Cows. They were driven partly by the intellectual challenge, and at least a little by an EU council directive, which mandates “that cattle housed in groups should be given sufficient space so […]
Scientists Gain Insights into and with Cereal Flakes
After generations of humans had been pouring cows’ milk onto breakfast cereal flakes and then pouring that milk/flake mixture into themselves, a researcher named Luigi Degano fed breakfast cereal to 21 cows in Italy. Degano wanted to see how this might affect the milk that later issued from the cows. Degano, based at the Istituto Sperimentale Lattiero […]