By now you’ve surely heard of Wolfram|Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” which aims to take any and all systematic factual information and allow you to compute with it. Recently, RevisingMRI sat down with Wolfram|Alpha for an interview about MRI. Every answer is a genuine reply from Wolfram|Alpha (links are provided).

RevisingMRI: Good morning.

Wolfram|Alpha: Hello, human.

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Rejected MRI-blog titles.
 
 

• An MRI Bore
• Field Lines
• OK Space
• Unfazed
• The Spin Room

Scientists from Germany and the Czech Republic have shown that domestic cattle and roe deer across the globe tend to graze aligned to North-South magnetic field lines. Using satellite data from Google Earth, they state that

“Because climatic factors like wind, sun, or temperature were apparently not common directional key factors explaining ubiquitous alignment, we conclude that the magnetic field is the only common and most likely factor responsible for the observed alignment.”

Gives a new meaning to “animal magnetism”.

Or acronym hell. A look at the (ab)use of the English language for marketing MRI acquistion pulse sequences and methods.

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Announcing—a MRI puzzle for Christmas 2007… a MRI Physics Cryptic Crossword.

First prize is a 20q game, which is an incredible little device which can guess what you’re thinking, by asking twenty apparently inane questions like “Is it larger than a duck?”.

Submit your answers to crossword@revisemri.com. Go for it!  Competition ended.
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