The cow-centric project, as reported by Ben Schiller for Fast Company, is as much performance art as state-of-the-art technology performance: “Each cow apparently passes enough gas to power a car or a fridge. Imagine the possibilities…. The project from Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology is only a proof-of-concept at this stage. But it is […]
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The String and the Doorknob
If you are a dentist, or have ever met one, hark back with us to the days of yesteryear, as recounted in this treatise: “The String and the Doorknob: Profile of a Popular Approach to Dental Extraction,” Eric K. Curtis, Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, vol. 48, 1990, pp. 1084-1092. In the writeup, details […]
Music That Overwhelms Tooth Pain, They Say
Begin playing the soothing music video, below. Listen to it as you read this item from the Bibliolore blog: A 28-year-old woman urgently needed a tooth extraction, and local anesthesia was not an option. The patient was offered all of the other anesthetizing options, but she chose music instead. A recording of a Rām dhun […]
Why brain extraction is not as bad as it sounds
Scientists marvel at how other scientists – the ones who study something other than what they themselves study – give strange meanings to common words. Evan Shellshear, at Fraunhofer Chalmers Centre in Gothenburg, sent me an example, a study called Fast Robust Automated Brain Extraction. Shellshear said: “I stumbled across this article somehow [whilst] looking for […]