Cats and dogs are among the many objects people are pretty good at recognizing, but computers are not. “Look, this is a cat!” and “Look, that’s a dog!” are cries you are more likely to hear from a person than from a silicon-based computer. (In truth, you are not all that likely to hear people […]
Tag: face
The further self-rejuvenation of Dr. Takasu, surgeon
Dr. Katsuya Takasu M.D., Ph.D is an aesthetic surgeon at the Takasu Clinic, Nagoya, Japan. He has embarked on a personal journey to demonstrate commitment to aesthetic surgery ideals – by having ‘rejuvenative’ facial plastic surgery himself. To document the project, Dr. Takasu, who is now 69, (see right hand top picture) has created three […]
Causation, correlation, and gunshot wounds & blast injuries to the face
The loud insistence that “correlation does not imply causation” may have inspired this study: “Gunshot wounds and blast injuries to the face are associated with significant morbidity and mortality: Results of an 11-year multi-institutional study of 720 patients,” Steven R. Shackford, et al., Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, vol. 76, no. 2, February […]
Dogs’ eyes resemble their owner’s’ eyes, study says
Some maintain that dogs often tend to look like their owners (and vice versa). If you subscribe to that viewpoint, you might also go on to ask – ‘Which part of the face is critical for such an impression to arise?’ This question has been tackled in new research published in the latest edition of […]