This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: God’s recent works — What has God done lately? Professionally, much of God’s work these days aims to help humans fly more safely, more efficiently and more profitably. As head of the Institute for Aircraft Cabin Systems […]
Add another study to the collection that focuses on a question of consumer acceptance of pork pâté enriched with cricket powder. This one is: “Nutritional Analysis and Evaluation of the Consumer Acceptance of Pork Pâté Enriched with Cricket Powder – Preliminary Study,” Krzysztof Smarzyński, Paulina Sarbak, Szymon Musiał, Paweł Jeżowski, Michał Piątek, and Przemysław, and […]
News on the meat, medical, and electro-communications fronts: “Mbps Experimental Acoustic Through-Tissue Communications: MEAT-COMMS,” Andrew Singer, Michael Oelze, and Anthony Podkowa, arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05269 (2016). The authors, at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, report: “This paper describes experimental transmission of digital communication signals through samples of real pork tissue and beef liver, achieving […]
A project at Aalborg University, in Denmark, observed what happens when a drone’s whirling propeller collides with a hunk of pork. This video captures the collision, showing it in slowed-down motion: Kelsey D. Atherton wrote about this, for Popular Science magazine. BONUS: Here’s video of an unplanned experiment, by a different research team, with a drone […]
