Thanks to investigator Margot Button for bringing this to our attention: BONUS: The classic study by Jerry Lettvin et al.: “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain” BONUS (unrelated): Gorb’s “Elastic modulus of tree frog adhesive toe pads“
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Levitated frogs, graphene, and all that
BBC Radio 4 says: “Andre Geim values his Ig Nobel prize for levitating frogs as much as his Nobel for graphene.” UPDATE: The BBC posted a recording of the interview, with this introduction: Helen Grady profiles Professor Sir Andre Geim who is one of the most unusual scientists working in Britain – perhaps the world […]
Resurrecting an extinct, odd frog, using an Ig Nobel winner’s discovery
Ed Yong reports on Mike Archer‘s ambitious project to resurrect — so to speak — an unusual species of frog that went extinct not long ago. The frog’s oddity was researched, and reported in 1981, by Mike Tyler, who later was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for studying and cataloguing odd smells produced by different frogs. Detail […]
Frog’s response to artificial ants
A frog’s eyes include networks of nerves that act as bug detectors — signaling to the frog’s brain whenever they see motion that’s typical of tasty bugs. That insight was revealed in 1959 in the study “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain,” written with Jerry Lettvin, Humberto Maturana, Warren McCullough, and Walter Pitts. This […]