Butchers, bakers and donutmakers probably won’t forsee all that much trouble in cutting something in half. If you’re a philosopher on the other hand . . . Problems arise when trying (to imagine) the process of cutting something exactly in half. Given that most objects could be said to have a centre point of some […]
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How to trim a tree
This video demonstrates an efficient way to trim a tree: (Thanks to Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.)
“Intellectual Sewing”: Keeping Proust in Stitches
A new academic sub-discipline is born: “Sewing Proust: Patchwork as Critical Practice,” Rhiannon Williams [pictured here], Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 1, Number 1, November 2013 , pp. 43-56. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at the University of Derby, explains: “I describe my own […]
A truly acute cute thing in PubMed
Yesterday we reported on several cute cases of apparent typographical errors that rendered the wore “acute” into “a cute” in citations in the PubMed database. This item, though, is different. Its title really is as it appears in the database: “Mesodiverticular Band: A Cute Little Bleeder,” K. Mukherjee, L. Fryer, Mr B. M. Stephenson, British […]