This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Suspicious eyes — In the year 2001, US president George W. Bush foreshadowed a hope that decades later would pervade the robotics industry. Bush stood next to Russian president Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Slovenia […]
Research studies about things people can’t do, about putting eyes onto the front of automobiles, and about 57 people and a fake-food buffet are featured in the “Improbable Research Review” column in the special Super-Advanced Theories issue (volume 29, number 1) of the magazine. You can read that article free online. Better still, buy a copy […]
Gluing-on false eyelashes with cyanoacrylate (CA) adhesive – like say, Superglue™ – is widely regarded as a very bad idea. However, in the case that that one’s eyelids do get superglued™ together, and one presents oneself at a hospital casualty department, what can medics do to remove the glue? In 2008, a US-based research team investigated […]
An innovational study published in 2016 described how a photo of ‘Watching Eyes’ prominently displayed in the perianesthesia area of a busy hospital could encourage healthcare professionals to use the alcohol handrubs (AHRs) provided. But the experiment was not entirely problem free – some felt that the picture (which showed the eyes of a recognizable leader […]
