“In this Curiosity video we follow Maggie Gyllenhaal in exploring how female brain activity changes as a woman reaches orgasm,” say the makers of the video. The investigation recalls the one personally documented (as the test subject) by Mary Roach in her stimulating book Bonk. (Thanks to investigator David Holzman for bringing the video to […]
Tag: scanning
A scan burrito (for formaldehyded specimens)
Larry Witmer of Ohio State University writes, in his blog: A scan burrito is what we call the assembled packet of dead animal that we shove into our microCT scanner. The dead animal du jour was the fleshed-out head of a hatchling false gharial, Tomistoma schlegelii, (USNM 84247), which is an unusual and enigmatic species […]
Kidney Beans at 9.89 GHz ?
Is 9.89 gigaherz the optimal frequency at which to scan kidney bean crops in order to obtain ground-based multi-temporal, multi-angle and co-polarized scatterometer X-band data? Your opinion on that may or may not change when you read the study: “Estimation of kidney bean crop variables using ground-based scatterometer data at 9.89 GHz“, Rajendra Prasada, International […]