In a pro basketball game, when is a lead safe? This analysis “Safe Leads and Lead Changes in Competitive Team Sports,” Aaron Clauset [pictured here], M. Kogan, and S. Redner, arXiv:1503.03509v1 [stat.AP] 11 Mar 2015. (Thanks to Marcos Carreira for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the University of Colorado, the Santa Fe […]
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New Hip, Safe Sex Motion Study
A hip new hip project carefully studied people having sex, doing it for safety’s sake. The study is: “Sexual Activity after Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Motion Capture Study,” Caecilia Charbonnier, Sylvain Chagué, Matteo Ponzoni, Massimiliano Bernardoni, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Panayiotis Christofilopoulos, Journal of Arthroplasty, epub September 6, 2013. This chart sums up the study’s medical insights, […]
Moodie’s Toilet-Paper Safe [patent]
Last week we looked at Ives’s modern paper safe. Today we present Moodie’s 19th-century toilet-paper safe: “Toilet-Paper Safe,” Elhanan L. Moodie, US patent number: 416340, Filing date: Aug 31, 1889. It begins: “Be it known that I, Elhanan L. Moodie, of the city and State of New York, have invented aii Improvement in Toilet-Paper Safes, […]
Mechanical high security, on paper: The paper safe
In an age when security — especially security on paper — is all the rage, Rob Ives designed this all-paper working safe: