This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Suck it up— Reader Simon Leach responded to Feedback’s call for papers in which The Title Tells You Everything You Need to Know with a cheery “Well, you asked for it!”. The “it” was a copy of […]
Italian researchers Annalisa Romano, Paolo Masi, and Silvana Cavella take a close look at slices of salami in their paper, “Visual evaluation of sliced Italian salami by image analysis.” Rather than using chemical analysis to determine the fat content in the salami, Romano’s team utilized computers to visually inspect the fat content. The computers were […]
The Neuroskeptic blog looks at how how a super-masterful sausage slicer makes sausage slices: Scientific Salami Slicing: 33 Papers from 1 Study “Salami slicing” refers to the practice of breaking scientific studies down into small chunks and publishing each part as a separate paper. Given that scientists are judged in large part by the number […]
Behold yet another music video about salami-picking robots. (Thanks to investigator Rhoda Idelle for bringing it to our attention.)