Compare and contrast, if you will, this press release from the University of Colorado: “Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction” …and the Ig Nobel Prize-winning patent by George and Charlotte Blonsky: “Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force”
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A news dump, about taking a dump: The Stool Stool
Alex Blasdel, writing in The Guardian, waxes eloquent about methods old and new: “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo— Are you sitting comfortably? Many people are not – and they insist that the way we’ve been going to the toilet is all wrong.” Blasdel describes in depth the commercial rise of […]
The effect of centrifugal birthing on an art critic
Rachel Lavin writes in The University Times, about Science Gallery [Dublin]‘s “Fail Better” exhibition: Some of the highlights are Christopher Reeve’s wheelchair, Samuel Beckett’s original manuscript drafts of Westward Ho, and most intriguingly, a human birthing machine that earned itself an Ig Nobel Prize. The machine has been rebuilt for viewing and is available to […]
A closer look at the Blonsky Device in Dublin
The Science Gallery in Dublin produced this short video closeup of their full-scale model of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning Blonsky centrifugal birthing device: For background on this see our February 21, 2014 report “The Blonsky centrifugal birthing device in Dublin“.