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...self. For example, neurologists have studied amputees who can feel sensation where their missing limbs used to be; researchers think this phantom limb phenomenon has to do with rewiring in the brain's somatosensory cortex. And, in the lab, researchers have been able to make people feel that fake rubber hands are attached to their own bodies. (This was done simply enough, by touching the participants' real hands while having them watch the rubber hands be touched in the same way and the same time.) Now, there are the current Science experiments: the first where volunteers have relocated their entire...
What about an animal that isn't supposed to have any legs at all and yet still needs to get around? Fuji, the dolphin that lost 75% of her tail, had just enough left that researchers at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan could affix a rubber tail, designed by sculptor Kazuhiko Yakushiji, onto her mangled tailfin with reinforced plastic and metal screws. Winter, a dolphin that lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is completely tailless as a result of an injury from a crab trap, presents a much bigger challenge. Hanger Orthopedic Group in Bethesda...
...Hermčs rubber-and-steel Clipper Chrono Plongeur watch ($3,100, hermes.com
...Much like the pubescent years we were enduring, summer concerts were more about the journey than the destination. Headliners, therefore, were irrelevant. No sooner had the Warped Tour been posted than we donned rubber bracelets and piled into the hatchback of whichever friend had most recently learned to drive. Once we got there, we were a lot more concerned with the contents of our illicit “water” bottles than we were with the musical styling of Blink-182. By this token, I regularly made the trek to see some of the worst college-rock bills...
...charred structure. The press and onlookers stole closer for a better look; I got within 50 yards. The second blaze culminated in a series of explosions that scattered our retinue and signaled the building’s collapse, which we watched in horror. The smoke and smell of burning rubber became unbearable. We watched as the firefighters struggled to move trucks and water-guns into position to fight a clearly unanticipated second blaze...