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Chef Who Makes Edible Piece of Art: Sushi Shoes

Yujia Hu, a Chinese chef born in Italy and now based in Milan, has combined food and fashion together in a beautiful blend to present the world with his latest culinary creations, sushi shoes.

Lance-Corporal W.J. Curtis of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps 3rd Division, bandages the burnt leg of a french boy whose brother looks on, Boissons, Normandy in France, 19 June 1944.

A girl and her teddy wearing gas masks, c. 1940.

Greetings from Daimler-Benz, 1930s, Germany

I present you with one adorable sleepy finger frog

Collective Invention, 1934, Rene Magritte

Recently, I found myself in the middle of a discussion with some close friends about the physics and maths that one can associate with our hands. Here are some notes from that discussion.

We apologize in advance if this post seems too factual and a bit disoriented, we couldn’t find a better way to share this information.

Hand Protractor

If you stretch out your hand, you will notice that the fingers on your hand can be calibrated to be used as a protractor like so:

Count from 0 to 1023 **

Want to count till 1023 just on your hands? Well, just assign each finger a binary value and chug along:

Also: Check out the binary dance by Vihart

Rock, paper, scissor, Lizard,Spock

A simple of rock,paper, scissor is by itself a lot of fun and is a playground for game theorists and mathematicians. 

But adding new gestures to the game reduces the odds of getting a tie but increases the complexity of the game. One popular five-weapon expansion is “rock-paper-scissors-Spock-lizard”, invented by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla.

Remembering number of days of the month

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The golden truth

This picture gets thrown everywhere on the Internet to illustrate the divine connection between hands and the golden ratio.

BUT in a study using X-rays conducted at St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, it was found that only 1 of 12 bone length ratios contained the ratio phi in the 95% confidence interval.

And it was concluded that:

The application of the Fibonacci sequence to the anatomy of the human hand, although previously accepted, is a relationship that is not supported mathematically.

Drip system on a farm land?

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What looks like a drip irrigation system on a farm land is actually a close up of your hands when sweating.

The reason why this visualization is fascinating is because modern techniques (like full field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) )in Forensics can extract sweat pores information from the fingerprint offering more information about the perpetrator crucial to the investigation.

Snapping fingers and cracking knuckles

When you snap your fingers, in order to get the satisfying full “snap” sound , the fast-moving second finger must hit both the palm and a small portion of the third finger.

If it hits only the palm and not the third(ring) finger, there will be a significant reduction in the total ‘snap’ sound. Try it out!

When you get tired of snapping your fingers, try cracking your knucles. The sharp sound that you hear is caused by the collapse of a cavitation bubble (see image above) in the sinuovial fluid present at the joint.

Fingers, shadows and the transit of Venus

If you are wondering how on earth can all of these words be possibly related, then try answering this question:

When you bring two of your fingers closer in the back drop of a light source, long before your fingers actually touch, the edges magically seem to touch each other.

Once you hypothesize a solution for this, head over here to understand what’s actually happening.

That’s about it! Hopefully not everything mentioned in this post seemed too trivial to you. Each topic mentioned in this post deserves a post on its own and is a lot of fun to explore.

We encourage to play around, have fun and have a great weekend ahead.