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Natural Shrinkage

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Back to the (more) serious stuff soon.  But to finish the apple story, how scary is this?

Scary
Scary

Hot on the heels of the Amazing Shrinking Head, I’ve dug this out of the archives.  Taken last year at Hampton Court Palace,  it’s an apple that has naturally dried out after someone stuck it on a spiked  fence.  With skin this time, there seems to be a natural predilection to eye-holes, and maybe a trace of nose?   (BenGoldacreDisclaimer – warning, one example does not constitute a scientifically, statistically significant, sample. Great Metro copy though).

But non significant
But not significant
Experiments, Fun

The Amazing Shrunken Head

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Here’s something you can be getting on with when you should be working etc.

Get that shrinking feeling
Getting a shrinking feeling?

It’s actually a little experiment the missus has been running right under my nose. And a fine demonstration it is too, of the scientific principle of  ‘DEHYDRATION’.

I’m sure you’ve already figured it out.  Peel an ordinary apple, carve a face on it, put it in the fridge.  Two weeks later – Mr Evil Applehead.

Enjoy!