This is perhaps the most exhilarating patent I’ve ever read:
Search for patent 4455333 at this link.
Here’s a excerpt:
When the cookie dough enters the oven, the water in the dough is saturated with sugar and appears to be evenly distributed throughout the dough. As the water temperature…
Apparently kittens can see an optimized Farser-Wilcox optical illusion.
Fraser and Wilcox 1979 (pdf)
Rotating Snakes (pdf)
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INCF’s brain atlases (mouse, macaque, and human) are easy to browse online. The system has been around for several years now, and keeps getting better.
Of course, the Allen Institute also maintains some excellent…
Randall Munroe did an xkcd cartoon a while back where he tried to explain a Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most common words in English. The resulting work, entitled “Up Goer…
My MD friends tell me there’s no effective cough medication on the market. There are OTC and prescription medicines, but none of them have been proven to really work. That doesn’t mean that they won’t give you some level of subjective relief, but they’re not like asprin or pseudoephedrine (e.g., regular Sudafed)*.
We used to…
One of the factors that limits the depth at which one can image brain tissue in vivo with two-photon imaging is out-of-plane fluorescence. Although the excitation falls off as the square of the distance from…
Previously on Labrigger: Street fighting mathematics
And on that topic, and this is something the runners among us might appreciate, the Fibonacci sequence can be used to easily convert miles to kms.
Take two consecutive…
I’ve seen this line in a methods section before:
“Experiments were carried out at room temperature (19-29 degrees C).”
Which means: “Our lab is in a building with no A/C and poor heating.”
For…
You can now post comments on PubPeer completely anonymously. Not even a login is required.
PubPeer has always allowed anonymous comments, but it used to be that you had to log in, so the…
