{"id":4067,"date":"2009-11-08T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2009-11-08T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T08:00:42","slug":"training-to-be-an-amish-mechanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4067","title":{"rendered":"Training to Be an Amish Mechanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/11\/haptic-cow\/\">Vet School 2.0: Stick Your Hand Up a Virtual Cow Butt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(the title is based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robin-williams.net\/itas.php\">Robin Williams Joke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s nothing tidy about sticking your arm deep into a cow\u2019s backside, getting up to your elbows in warm and gooey bovine innards.<\/p>\n<p>But for new vet students, there\u2019s no avoiding the procedure: To diagnose pregnancy or check for infection, you\u2019ve got to reach into a cow\u2019s rectum and feel for the uterus, ovaries and stomach. Unfortunately, proper palpation is a tough skill to teach, because once your arm is buried inside a cow butt, no one can see what you\u2019re doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one can see what you\u2019re doing?  Nothing like a little animal &#8220;husbandry&#8221; until they catch you at it.<\/p>\n<p>(now I&#8217;m stealing from Tom Lehrer)<\/p>\n<p>As long as I&#8217;m this low in the pasture, I&#8217;ll complete the trilogy.  A few weeks ago, we were doing some mundane inventory-task, and one the guys said, &#8220;Hand me the scissors,&#8221; and was corrected by another of us \u2014 they were shears, not scissors.  This prompted him to say, on the topic of shears, &#8220;I can tell you that the act of shearing takes all the romance out of sheep farming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pause for effect.<\/p>\n<p>I then said something like, &#8220;I&#8217;m not really sure I want to hear the details about the romance you found in sheep farming.   That&#8217;s between you and the sheep.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vet School 2.0: Stick Your Hand Up a Virtual Cow Butt (the title is based on a Robin Williams Joke) There\u2019s nothing tidy about sticking your arm deep into a cow\u2019s backside, getting up to your elbows in warm and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}