This experiment is one of the (so-far) few that explicitly consider the ‘Kicking the Barking Dog Effect‘: “Effects of anger and trigger identity on triggered displaced aggression among college students: based on the ‘kicking the barking dog effect’, ” Shen Liu, Wenxiu Li, Xinwei Hong, Minghua Song, Feng Liu, Zhibin Guo, and Lin Zhang, BMC […]
Dr. Pain is a Reader in Biomechanics at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. His 30 yr. martial arts training undoubtedly helped in the creation of a martial arts kicking robot, which aims to faithfully replicate the roundhouse kick in Taekwondo. It was developed along with Dr. Felix Tsui, also at Loughborough. Their paper, ‘Utilising human […]
New Scientist describes and shows (in the video—click on the image to be whisked to a viewing site) a mechanism meant to simulate what pregnancy feels like: “The device can replicate the 9-month long process in two minutes or it can be worn for a longer period to experience what it feels like day-to-day. To […]
Historic footage of savate, a French style of boxing. The first film clip offers historic British commentary. The narrator says: “After the recent British heavyweight box contests, let’s take a look a the French ring, where men are men. On the left, Battling Gaston, the brutal bruiser. On the right, Pretty Pierre, who packs a […]
