Doctoral student Hai Qiu and professor Shuping Xiong of the Ergonomics and Applied Biomechanics Lab at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea, have recently been investigating ‘The Influence of Foot Sizes on Human Balance’ “This study investigated the relationship between foot size and human balance performance. The balance performances of 30 […]
Tag: Size
Chubby Checker, the “Chubby Checker”, and the Ig Nobel Prize
The TCPalm web site, in Florida, reports: Chubby Checker’s federal lawsuit has sexual twist, Gary law firm in Stuart says FORT PIERCE — Stuart attorney Willie Gary has filed a federal lawsuit with a “Twist.” Gary and members of his law firm filed a lawsuit late Monday in federal court in Fort Pierce on behalf […]
Rats Will Encounter Rat-Size People, and Vice Versa
Rats and people (or any two different size critters) can encounter each other on the same scale, virtually, under the scheme outlined in a new study. The image below demonstrates virtual rat-sized persons in a rat world. The study is: “Beaming into the Rat World: Enabling Real-Time Interaction between Rat and Human Each at Their […]
She of the industrial standard breasts
From the book World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert P. Crease: Rita Mazzella is the doyenne of bra fit models. Lingerie companies use her breasts — size 34C — to construct new brassiere lines, then scale the size down to A and B, and up to D. […]
Headline of the day: Yogurt and ball circumference
Today’s Headline of the Day is from Scientific American, atop an article by Elie Dolgin: Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger Testicles The article itself begins: Last summer a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity. They were following up on the results […]
“Why are British women’s breasts getting bigger?”
This week’s Headline of a Past Week honor goes to a May 16, 2010 headline in The Observer (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.): Why are British women’s breasts getting bigger? Alice Fisher wrote the article, waxing most analytical in this passage: Do you know how to work out a […]
The vagueness of size: Little big star
The notion of size can be surprisingly vague. Here’s an example. Is this a big error, or a small error: NEWS.com.au would like to apologise for their error — as we all know, Betelgeuse is the second biggest star in the Orion constellation, not the universe. The quotation is from a news article that says: […]
Books by the foot
Wonder Book sells books to people who want a lot of them: We sell books in bulk via our “books by the foot” service supplying interior decorators, hotels, law firms and retail chains across America with inexpensive books chosen by genre, color, and size… BOOKS BY THE FOOT: With pricing starting at $6.99 per linear […]
Big: Hand
“How Big Is a Hand?”, N.D. Rossiter, P. Chapman and I.A. Haywood, Burns, vol. 22, no. 3, May 1996, pp. 230–1 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-4179(95)00118-2). The authors, who are at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, London, UK, report: Exactly what constitutes ‘the palm of the hand’ and how large an area this is, depends on whether you follow […]