[NOTE: The paper was retracted, as described below—here is an updated link to a copy of it.] In the spirit of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning dead salmon study (and subsequent studies that went looking for fishy things) comes this new study about Covid-19, cat images, and some limitations of technology: “Can Your AI Differentiate Cats […]
Tag: imaging
fMRI of the Brains of People Eating High and Low Quality Steak
A further innovation in the study of the brain, and/or in the study of people eating cooked meat: “Neural connectivity of the right and left nucleus accumbens after eating high and low quality steak,” W.N. Tapp, T.H. Davis, D. Paniukov, and Markus F. Miller [pictured below], Meat Science, vol. 112, February 2016, p. 113. The authors, […]
MRI: tool use progresses from medicine to pork pie development
A tool often used to assess the quality of, or damage to, human bodies can also be used to assess the quality of, or damage to, an object that will be ingested into one of those human bodies. Details appear in this study: “Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Tool for Pork Pie Development,” Adam P. Gaunte, Robert […]
Falling Snowflakes: vertical or horizontal?
In 2009, researchers at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, of the University of North Dakota, US, presented (in association with the Instrumentation Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) details of their Snowflake Video Imager (SVI). It was fully described in a paper for the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. The imager, which linked […]