A rare opportunity presents itself to conduct research on yoga with goats. The No Regrets Farm, in Oregon, is conducting sessions of yoga with goats. Researchers interested in pursuing this are advised to get in touch with the farm’s director. Opportunities exist elsewhere, too. This video could be the basis for an entire PhD thesis: […]
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Why it will take 6,000 dead goats to build Britain’s high speed railway
A new UK railway project will indirectly require thousands of dead goats, explains the IanVisits Blog. It’s a matter of vellum: If, or when the High Speed 2 railway is constructed, it will require roughly 6,000 dead goats. This curious statement comes from an old technicality as Acts of Parliament, when passed into law are still […]
Goats in and as sweaters
Goats in sweaters (via @EmilyAnthes): Photo Essay: Goats in Sweaters By Reyhan Harmanci, Modern Farmer, November 26, 2013 For the past 17 years, Brooklyn-based artist Alexander Gorlizki has been traveling to Jaipur, India, to work. And while there over the last few years, he began photographing something very exciting: goats wearing sweaters…. Goats as sweaters; “An explanation […]
George Macleod and book dilution
George Macleod (MRCVS, DVSM, Vet.FFHom, according to reports) wrote several books. A web site [from which we reproduce the apparently diluted photo you see here] that sells those books says: George Macleod, a graduate of Glasgow University, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on homoeopathic treatment of animals. He is one of the few veterinary […]
The men who startled goats
“The overflight produced a noise that was even impressive to the human observers.” The overflight in question was that of a low-flying Chinook helicopter. It was participating in a recent experiment which was attempting to answer the question ‘Do goats get stressed-out by low-flying helicopters?’ To find out, a group of Dutch investigators exposed five […]
The fallacy of examples: an example
Yes, I am a goat-giver, and proud of it. But— I’ve noticed in business writing in particular the frequency of what we can call the Fallacy of Examples (a type of Fallacy of Hasty Generalization). You read some story about a successful CEO as if we should learn from his (yes, usually it’s a him) […]