The first (documented) version of the famous ‘Duck-Rabbit’ illusion is an unattributed drawing from the 23 October 1892 issue of the German Humour Magazine Fliegende Blätter, Since 1892, many thousands of people have struggled to decide whether the image is a duck or a rabbit. Results are about 50/50, with viewers seeing either a duck […]
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Banana skins and rabbit cartilage mucus – with an Ig Nobel connection
Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, were jointly awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Physics Prize for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that’s on the floor. REFERENCE: “Frictional Coefficient under […]
Bunny Facial Features Cuteness Survey
Naomi Harvey and colleagues at and around the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University are collecting opinions about bunny cuteness. They invite anyone who has such opinions to take their Rabbit Facial Features Survey: The aim of this study is to assess people’s preference for rabbit facial features, to help us gain an understanding […]
Carrots, carrots, carrots, in a rabbit
Having looked at a case of too much carrot in a man, let us now peruse a rabbit: “Hyperostotic polyarthropathy in a rabbit‐a suspected case of chronic hypervitaminosis A from a diet of carrots,” J. L. Frater, Australian Veterinary Journal, vol. 79, no. 9, 2001, pp. 608-611. The author, at the Unviersity of Melbourne, reports: […]
