Dr Gábor Horváth discovered that white horses attract fewer flies. Horváth, head of the Environmental Optics Laboratory at Eotvos University in Budapest, solves mysteries about light and about living creatures. He and five colleagues wrote a study called An Unexpected Advantage of Whiteness in Horses: The Most Horsefly-proof Horse Has a Depolarising White Coat, which […]
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“Hell Bent for Leather”, a post-horse film
The US government produced this consistently dull, depressing training film to explain to children that, even though horse soldiers no longer ride horses, they are still (as the film’s name says) “Hell Bent for Leather“.
Sic Transit Peanut
Scientists have long engaged in a race to catch up with evil-doers who would slip forbidden substances to unsuspecting creatures. This study documents on little chapter in the history of that struggle: “Detection and Determination of Theobromine and Caffeine in Urine After Administration of Chocolate-Coated Peanuts to Horses,” T.M. Dyke and R.A. Sams, Journal of […]