Music history, capture on video long ago, presented now by the Internet Archive, and described by the Public Domain Review: “Universal Newsreel from 1933 showing Cecil H. Dill, a farmer from Traverse Coty, Michigan, demonstrating his ability to render popular melodies by pressing his hands together. After the performance, which seems to be of Yankee […]
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Belarus takes steps against discrimination
The nation of Belarus has taken big very public, perhaps symbolic gestures against discrimination. In Belarus, one infers, all persons are considered equally capable of performing important tasks. The Christian Science Monitor reports: In Belarus, one-armed man arrested for clapping The crackdown in Belarus grew more indiscriminate this week. Among the 400 arrested: a one-armed […]
Handy tips for identifying future doctors
A new Italian study points towards a handy way to identify who might become a top doctor. The method: Compare the lengths of a person’s second finger and fourth finger. It’s that simple. The monograph is called The Second-To-Fourth Digit Ratio Correlates with the Rate of Academic Performance in Medical School Students and appears in […]
I Have a Nail “Stuck” In My Hand
“I Have a Nail ‘Stuck’ in my Hand,” E.K. Anesti, C. Malic and S. Southern, Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 49, no. 2, February 2007, pp. 249–50 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.08.038). (That’s an excerpt from the article “Icky Cutesy Research Review,” Published in AIR 15:3.)