“How did they reach that conclusion? … If you eat a shrew whole, and excrete its bones, the bones will have specific hallmarks of human digestion, typified by the concentration of stomach acid and so on. In fact a scientific team won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2013 for studying what happens to shrew bones […]
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A dog reacting to a person behind a glass door, pretending to weep
Dog/door/pretend-weeping research by Julia Meyers-Manor: (Thanks to the QI Elves for bringing this video to our attention.)
A Dog Using Skype [research study]
Technology is not just for humans, suggests this study that uses a dog using Skype to try to make that point, or to make some other point: “A Dog Using Skype,” Alexandre Pongrácz Rossi, Sarah Rodriguez, and Cassia Rabelo Cardoso dos Santos, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, ACM, 2016, p. 10. […]
Flow, metaphor, flow: Constructal Law
Some things can remind you about almost everything. (Jane Siberry demonstrated this with her song “Everything reminds me of my dog.”) Some ideas can explain specific physical patterns—patterns you can see around you if you start looking for them, patterns you can try to measure and ruthlessly compare with each other. And some of those […]