Surveilance Reports About Self-Touching “Most Self-Touches Are with the Nondominant Hand,” Nan Zhang, Wei Jia, Peihua Wang, Marco-Felipe King, Pak-To Chan, and Yuguo Li, Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-13. (Thanks to Adrian Smith for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at The University of Hong Kong and The University of […]
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Oblique Linguistic Enigmas: deciphering “NOT/NOT”
Languages, it is said, are never static – words, their meaning, their pronunciation and preferred syntax are constantly evolving. But the changes are not restricted to words – punctuation marks too, evolve. Take, for a recent example, an unusual construct from an official US Govt. source – reprinted by the UK Guardian as part of […]
Surveillance: Tracking multiple fruit flies
The science and engineering of tracking multiple missiles (which tend to move in fairly predictable paths) pales compared to this advance in surveillance: “Multi-camera Realtime 3D Tracking of Multiple Flying Animals“, Andrew D. Straw, Kristin Branson, Titus R. Neumann, Michael H. Dickinson, 2010, arXiv:1001.4297v1. (Thanks to Ben Stromquist.)