The economics of snails—specifically, what one might call “the economics of the shell game”—gets some data and hard thought in a new study. “A Comparison of Wealth Inequality in Humans and Non-Humans,” Ivan D. Chase, Raphael Douady, and Dianna K. Padilla, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, 122962. The authors, at Stony Brook […]
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The Effectiveness of Snail-Throwing
Three things — (1) gardeners, (2) snails, and (3) the question of whether the latter (not the former) have a homing instinct — dominate the narrative in this new study: “Snails home,” David J. Dunstan [pictured here] and David J. Hodgson, Physica Scripta, vol. 89, no. 6, 2014, 068002. The authors, at Queen Mary University […]
Renewable power source search: Lobsters
Moving on to lobsters, the team that is systematically exploring different varieties (see detail in text, below) of renewable power sources: “From ‘cyborg’ lobsters to a pacemaker powered by implantable biofuel cells,” Kevin MacVittie, Jan Halamek, Lenka Halamkov, Mark Southcott, William D. Jemison, Robert Lobel and Evgeny Katz, Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 6, 2013. The authors, […]