Color Preference in the Insane, Can Consumers Recognize the Taste of their Favorite Beer?, Effect of Audience Boredom on the Power Hungry, You Never Sleep Alone, Improbable Medical Review, Extracting the Wrong Tooth, and Telephones for Animals. In episode #206, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Jean Berko Gleason, Chris Cotsapas, Maggie Lettvin, […]
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The benefits, to non-scientists, of DNA research: Lennon’s Tooth
Molecular biology research, once seen as exotic, now showers benefits on the population at large. The May 29, 2018 issue of The Irish Sun brings news of the newest benefit: HERE COMES THE SON Dentist who owns John Lennon’s tooth will use DNA test to find Beatle’s potential love children in bid to claim slice of […]
To Push a Tooth
Only a few documented experiments have measured the result of pushing a single tooth at either of two positions along the tooth, for purposes of understanding the brain. Here is one such study: “Forces, movements and reflexes produced by pushing human teeth,” Brendan J.J. Scott [pictured here], Andrew G. Mason and Samuel W. Cadden, Experimental […]
Tooth-clicking for better Internet browsing?
Tooth-clicking is in its infancy as a means of telling a computer what to do, and when to do it. The hope is that, in a symphony-of-body-parts approach, clicking your teeth will become one of the almost-natural ways you will interact with computing devices…. —so begins another Improbable Innovation nugget, which appears in its entirety on BetaBoston.