The insides of a singer singing are on display in this video, produced by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. And here’s a look inside a talker talking: The Max Planck Institute is celebrating some of the work that made this kind of video possible. In particular, they say: The European Patent […]
Tag: tongue
What the Frog’s Saliva Does for the Frog’s Tongue
Ig Nobel Prize winner David (“urination duration in mammals”) Hu and colleagues turned their intense gaze toward frog tongues and saliva. They published this study: “Frogs use a viscoelastic tongue and non-Newtonian saliva to catch prey,” Alexis C. Noel, Hao-Yuan Guo, Mark Mandica, David L. Hu, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2017, 14, 20160764. […]
The Butcher’s Tongue Illusion (update)
Could we inform those who wish to experiment in a hands-on practical way with the Butcher’s Tongue Illusion (which we highlighted [highlit?] back in Oct 2014, see: ‘The Butcher’s Tongue Illusion (from the chip-crunch manipulator’), that the paper provides a link to DiscountMagic where fake tongues (like the one used in the experiments) can be […]
The taste of electric currents (part 1 of 2)
It was sometime around 1752 that Johann Georg Sulzer decided (for reasons best known to himself) to put the tip of his tongue between two plates of (different) metal whose edges were in contact. The results were, quite literally, shocking. He’d not only inadvertently stumbled across one of the world’s first electrolytic batteries, but it […]