Preparing for Bloodshed in Space, With Pigs

“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: “Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,” Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis […]

Visions of Pork Production, on French Belle Époque Pig Postcards

Amidst the vastness of a study on old French pig postcards, there is an image from a once-famous, now-somewhat-neglected way to teach drawing. The pig postcard study is: “Visions of Pork Production, Past and Future, on French Belle Époque Pig Postcards,” Michael D. Garval, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2015. The drawing […]

The Effect of Music on the Efficiency of Surgical Closures

“Time” as they say “is money.” Especially relevant perhaps, in a plastic surgery operating theatre, in which running costs can reach $66 a minute. And where, for example, “A 10% reduction in operative time per hour equals savings of $396 per hour.” What might help to speed-up surgeons’ performance (without of course compromising accuracy and […]

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