Brian Hayes‘s essay (in American Scientist) called “Group Theory in the Bedroom” applies advanced mathematics to what happens in the bedroom. The bedroom is the room with the bed in it. The essay begins: Having run out of sheep the other night, I found myself counting the ways to flip a mattress. Earlier that day I […]
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A Deflating Picture Perhaps Clarifies a Medical Technique
This medical study features a photo that either clarifies matters or confuses them: “A novel method to decrease mattress compression during CPR using a mattress compression cover and a vacuum pump,” Jaehoon Oh, Youngjoon Chee, Yeongtak Song, Taeho Lim, Hyunggoo Kang, Youngsuk Cho, Resuscitation, epub 2012. The authors, at Hanyang University in Seoul and at […]