Finding Emilie
Seeing this MetaFilter post reminded me that I'd listened to the Radioab podcast's account of the same story, Finding Emilie, a few weeks ago. In this segment, we take an emotional left turn to a story...
View ArticleComing next: a study of how Wile E Coyote survived all those falls
Astonishing: Academics have carried out a detailed analysis of the 700 head injuries suffered by characters in the Asterix comic books, in a paper published by a respected medical journal. [...] The...
View ArticleEwwwwwwww….
Comment of the week, in response to a post about the Headline of the Week: "Success! Functioning Anal Sphincter Grown in a Petri Dish". Otto says: 10 Aug 2011 at 11:46 pm Question: How, exactly, do...
View ArticleThe Case of the Disappearing Knees
I have just been to Naples to see Vesuvius and would you believe it the bloody fools have let it go out. Spike Milligan, from his correspondence with BUPA.1 Yes, really.
View ArticleReally!
Siri's apparent unwillingness to provide useful responses to search queries relating to birth control makes Apple look terrible. I wonder how much embarrassment it would take for Apple to cite the...
View ArticleLearning to Talk
Learning to Talk by Lauren Daisley: When a voiceover artist temporarily loses the use of her primary asset, the struggle back to speaking unearths what's gone unsaid for too long.
View ArticleNumbers don't lie
Statistic of the day: Parachuting for charity: is it worth the money? A 5-year audit of parachute injuries in Tayside and the cost to the NHS. Authors Lee CT, et al. Injury. 1999 May;30(4):283-7....
View ArticleLove in a cold climate
The Wellcome Library blog tells the tale of the Common Cold Unit: Volunteers were kept in strict isolation from the outside world and from others taking part in the trial. But as one CCU press release...
View Article'Exposure and quackery'
An amazing list of actual reasons for admission into the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum from the late 1800s. "Masturbation for 30 years" and "Suppressed masturbation"? The ideal was to find a happy...
View ArticleThe brains of the trainee interpreters had changed […] but not in the way you...
In other words: inside the lives and minds of real-time translators… Looking down over the delegates at the IMO, I was reminded of the view from a captain's bridge, or the gallery of a television...
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