This medical study features a photo that either clarifies matters or confuses them: “A novel method to decrease mattress compression during CPR using a mattress compression cover and a vacuum pump,” Jaehoon Oh, Youngjoon Chee, Yeongtak Song, Taeho Lim, Hyunggoo Kang, Youngsuk Cho, Resuscitation, epub 2012. The authors, at Hanyang University in Seoul and at […]
Tag: technique
How To Whistle Loudly
Nat Wilson applies principles of acoustics as he demonstrates “How To Whistle Loudly“. Other people, too, tell and show how to do it:
Not (and not not) recommended for hair club members
The technique shown in this video is not recommended for members of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Nor is it not recommended. The video is called “Painting Your Room With Metal Music and Your Hair”. (Thanks to investigator Wendy Cooper for bringing it to our attention.)
Two to remember: Schunicht and Foer
How to deliberately remember lots of info? Here are two immodest masters of the game, telling how they do it. Both use variations on the time-honored method: associate each thing to be remembered with something colorful. Shannon Schunicht’s web site explains: While in the Army, Mr. Schunicht was involved in a mid-air collision rendering him […]
Irrational Torque Technique of Hammer Throwers
This study explains that the technique of certain hammer throwers is irrational. Below the citation, you can see a video about the comparatively rational techniques of Soviet hammer throwers. “Kinematical Research on the Whole Pace and the Features of the Kip and Knee of the Throwing Technique of Chinese Elite Female Hammer Throwers,” Zhang Jinyi, […]
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 […]