Clever Stuff

The inventiveness of human mind!

1. Is it possible to reassemble a shredded document? Seems it is possible. Slate discusses how it is done.

2. This is clever: "Doing something unusual, like knocking on wood or patting yourself on the head, while taking a daily dose of medicine may be an effective strategy to help seniors remember whether they've already taken their daily medications, suggests new research," reports Science Daily, but still, you have to remember the unusual thing you did to remember something you ought not to have forgotten...

3. Ever harbored thoughts of murder or rape? Well, who hasn't! Jon Chambers argues that we are all insane- it is just that we rationalise our urges and desist from acting on them at the conscious level (we decide that 'insane' acts are not done)- http://chambersthepoet.blogspot.com/ (Warning: the last paragraph alone is what we can underastand- all the preceding words are heavy philosophic stuff)

4. Spoilt for choice: the chimera of the best buy- Wood’s World discusses that more options do not necessarily make for a happy choice.

5. Not the usual stuff you read here- "Ten Basic Articles for The Philosophy of Mind"- Daniel Dennett, Jerry Fodor and more, ending with John Searle and Alan Turing- ANDERSON BROWN'S PHILOSOPHY BLOG. Do we need this?

6. But this, I can take: "Spectacular Dams Around the World"- Nature, travel and vacation

7. K. Suresh:- Locked-in:

"After several such incidents, I thought it prudent to rein in my 'loquaciousness' and decided to maintain the eye equivalent of the stiff upper lip in front of visitors who may not be familiar with my communication codes."

And the lesson?

"There is a lot of truth in the old saying that "it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

8. "A UK hospital that combined its bereavement and donation services saw a forty-fold increase in tissue donations, such as corneas, in just five years, according to research just published in Anaesthesia"

- EurekAlert


9. The head shape and overall size of rodents has something to do with human population density and climate change- EurekAlert!

10. The Vacuum Cleaner Museum:

"Stark's is home to a small but very comprehensive Vacuum Cleaner Museum. The walls of their rear showroom are lined with over 300 different models of vacuums, from their oldest, a two person hand pumped wood and steel number, to "futuristic" dustbusters from the 1960's and even a few upright wands that look like they were meant to smoke out bees, not suck up dirt."

via Atlas Obscura