Italian researchers Annalisa Romano, Paolo Masi, and Silvana Cavella take a close look at slices of salami in their paper, “Visual evaluation of sliced Italian salami by image analysis.” Rather than using chemical analysis to determine the fat content in the salami, Romano’s team utilized computers to visually inspect the fat content. The computers were […]
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Scientific Salami Slicing: 33 Papers from 1 Study
The Neuroskeptic blog looks at how how a super-masterful sausage slicer makes sausage slices: Scientific Salami Slicing: 33 Papers from 1 Study “Salami slicing” refers to the practice of breaking scientific studies down into small chunks and publishing each part as a separate paper. Given that scientists are judged in large part by the number […]
Another salami-picking robot video
Behold yet another music video about salami-picking robots. (Thanks to investigator Rhoda Idelle for bringing it to our attention.)
The Cheese and Salami Experiments
Through the clever use of cheese in 2004, researchers at the University of Reading claimed to have solved one of life’s great little mysteries. “Why is it relatively difficult, even with a sharp knife, to cut when simply ‘pressing down’, but much easier to cut as soon as some sideways sawing or slicing action is […]