This study looks at the gait of the shoeless: “To what extent does not wearing shoes affect the local dynamic stability of the gait? Effect size and intra-session repeatability,” Philippe Terrier, Fabienne Reynard, http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5510, March 5, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Francis Villatoro for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Institute for Research in […]
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Eating leather
Two reports about eating leather (allegedly and really): 1. From 1891, in the report “Report on a beetle destroying boots & shoes in Sydney,” by Walter Wilson Froggatt, on page 4: 2. 1980, in the film “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe“:
Attenborough Can Make Anything More Dramatic
Sir David Attenborough’s sonorous tones add a measure of gravitas to any nature documentary. In this video from BBC One’s Graham Norton Show, Sir Attenborough lends the power of his voice to narrate a video of a retifistic tortoise’s unsuccessful advances toward a shoe. (HT to Jerry Coyne for sharing this via his blog) Bonus: […]
A Swiss sock boosted (and over-booted?) by Kiwi research
A product called The Swiss Protection Sock appears to extend the principle that was honored by the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in public health. That prize was awarded to Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams, and Patricia Priest of the University of Otago, New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if […]