Pigs, like humans, can get bored. Perhaps they’d like to play a game to amuse themselves? Even better, with interacting humans? A project designed to examine such possibilities is underway at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and Wageningen University Livestock Research Department in The Netherlands. It’s called ‘Playing With Pigs’ and is “researching the complex […]
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Boxes for rocks — their own story
Boxes for rocks grow from much thought and careful effort, what with the desire that each box fit snugly and well in enclosing a particular rock. Ann Macmillan, say those who know, “creates cardboard boxes for rocks that are designed to fit each rock’s individual surface. After 3D scanning them and unfolding the rock’s geometry, the […]
Perfecting the Schnitzel-Laser
Moti Fridman alerted us to the existence of the schnitzel-laser. Fridman wrote: “They showed how a laser can find by itself the correct phase to lase at in order to go through a thin chicken breast with no aberrations, when it is put inside the cavity. In a talk they called it the schnitzel-laser. This research shows beautifully the […]
Eyebrows Lasers Dangers
If one was contemplating methodologies for the permanent removal of one’s eyebrows, and one was inclined towards a laser – specifically a 755 nanometre Alexandrite laser – then one might be advised to think again. A 2011 case report in the medical journal Clinical Ophthalmology describes a scenario involving a 41-year-old man, who : “…presented […]