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What is in the creak?
Unfortunately, the experience of feedback from mice is limited by the dead (or, sometimes barely alive) that one of our cats insists on bringing into the house. This means that we heard more than our fair share of squeak.
Thus, we were puzzled to find out that science was almost completely ignored. Reporter Alex Wilkins assures us that this is true by reading a recent study in Biological letters authorized “Hidden in a simple sound: the scientific potential of the creaks mouse”Field
The extreme part is that the studies of the vocalization of domestic mice were concentrated on ultrasonic sounds that people do not hear. Perhaps they felt new and amazing, so they stole the center of attention. Meanwhile, the authors say, the audible creaks “got less attention”, which led to the “lack of studies oriented to the creaky”.
This is clearly a mistake. According to them, Squeak has a “significant scientific potential”, because “the degree in which the scripts transmit information about the vocalizer and affect the behavior of listeners in different social contexts is not yet studied.”
Suspects on suspected squeaks are very effective communication. We remember how Terry Pratchett read that the gloomy Zhenya character, known as the death of rats, can convey a lot with a well -chosen violin. Maybe we need a slogan. What do we want? Squeak. When do we want this? SHO!
Pennative determinism
Sometimes identifying determinism comes to us in a slightly ring way.
Paul Meara notes that the recent feature on the body's body (August 2, p. 30) Angela watchesResearcher at MSH Medical School Hamburg in Germany, who is also the chief executive director of Timeteller.
Unfortunately, feedback does not speak of the Portuguese language, otherwise we would know how the floor does it, what “relógio” means “watch”.
Similarly, feedback is aware that there are decades of study of the role of protein called amyloid in Alzheimer's disease.
Therefore, we were even more puzzled by learning that at the University of Great Britain, Dundie has an Alzheimer illness specialist named Amy Lloyd.
Tough, like nails
On September 18, the most important prizes in the scientific calendar were declared at the ceremony of scientists: IG Nobels. They are known bizarre and unusual studies, which, however, matter. Or, as the creators of the event expressed, “Achievements are so amazing that they make people laugh, then think”Field
Reviews did not get to the event. Fortunately All show is available for viewing onlineField
Belonging Various awards, we were the most intrigued literary prize. This was given to the teacher and the doctor William Bennett bin (1909-1989), “for constant recording and analyzing the growth rate of one of its nails for 35 years.”
His work on this included a 1953 study entitled “Simply “A note on the growth of the nails”In which Bin set out “observations made over the past 10 years.”
A few more in such Vienna followed, ending in the 1980s Magnum Opus “Stone growth. Thirty -five years of observation “Published in Archive of internal medicineThe feedback field received this climatic nail paper and chewed our path.
Bin describes his study as “a very long recording of the growth of human deciduous fabric”, which “provides a slowly moving keratin kimograph, which measures age at an inexorable abscissa of time.”
What of the conclusions? The first discovery of bin was that various nails grow in different steps, and that it was sequentially over time.
“Simply put, the legs on the legs grow slower than the nails of the hand, and the nail of the middle finger grows faster than the nails of the thorough or little finger or two other middle fingers. By measuring one nail, the growth rate can be designed for everyone. ” After this opening, they accumulated with the growth of high -speed nails.
Some factors, however, can cause a detectable slowdown in nail growth. Bin had mumps in 1950, and this caused a “decisive slowdown”, but after he discovered “there was compensation acceleration”. Finally, he determined a long -term slowdown. “The average daily growth of the left miniature, for example, varied from 0.123 mm per day during the first part of the study, when I was 32 years old to 0.095 mm per day at the age of 67 years.”
Our only question is why it took so long to give a bin prize when he was such an obviously researcher worthy of the IG.
Other prizes went to the study “A degree in which a certain type of lizard prefers to eat certain types of pizza”, “that experiences caring for a child when the mother of the child eats garlic”, and “can cows drawn by a zebra similar to stripes similar to a zebra.”
Feedback is especially appreciated by the chemistry premium awarded for trying to find out whether the food that has been improved with undesirable Teflon. The rates on rats suggested that it works and is non -toxicBut, nevertheless, we want to warn readers so as not to try it at home.
To be safe, maybe we should just pick up our food with powdered nails.
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