The skin deep skin#

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The skin deep skin#

The Skin Deep have also chosen to give back during this time, with 5% of all net proceeds being donated to the following organisations - The CDC foundation, COVID-19 Solidarity Response fund for the world health organisation and Heart to Heart International. You might even learn something about yourself in the process. So, if you're in the mood for deepening your relationships, these cards might provide you the perfect avenue. People go through different things at different times. Sometimes what someone else feels they can give might not match what you feel you've delivered to the relationship but that's O.K. I've been of the firm belief that what you give, you should see in return, but I think I understand her point that this isn't always the case. To which she replied: 'No matter the time you invest in people, they still don’t owe you anything, as connections with people shouldn’t be transactional.'Īnd it's made me think about other relationships in my life. As a person who naturally tends to overthink things and who suffers from self-doubt, it's affected me in both my personal and work lives, preventing me from celebrating my accomplishments, so she made me consider giving myself more credit, more often.īut the thing that really surprised me was in answer to the question: 'What’s the last thing you learned that changed you?' Hearing my friend telling me that I’m stronger than I think I am had a profound impact. Singing lead is the great David Ruffin backed by the equall. To give you some insight into what we experienced, a few of the questions that came up were: 'What do you think I want most from life? What's something I really need to hear? When do you feel most secure in our friendship?' Some classic motown, a beautiful and underrated track by the 'emperors of soul': The Temptations.

I recently tried out the Friends Edition over Zoom with my BFF and it was an eye opening experience. The sorts of questions that have typically gone unsaid that people might have been too scared to ask but desperate to know the answers to.Įach version comes with 199 cards, prompting questions. Pioneering a concept called, the studio sets two people with an intense connection face to face, pushing them to ask the sorts of poignant questions that draw important, emotional responses. And their YouTube channel really packs a punch. The Skin Deep is an Emmy award-winning creative studio and publisher, with a purpose to explore human emotion and intimacy in the digital age. And let me tell you, once you know about this, it might just change your life.or at least your lockdown. “Nobody has really yet incorporated this in actual robots,” he added.While stuck inside with so little to do, it feels important that we keep our minds stimulated, so that they don't turn to jelly.Īnd while most of us have been casting aside Monopoly for newer games like Exploding Kittens or digging out 1000 piece jigsaws, I recently stumbled across a YouTube channel from 'The Skin Deep', and subsequently across a card game that they have produced. Milinkovitch, who was not involved in the study. The new study is a good reminder of “the involvement of the skin itself in biomechanics,” said Michel Milinkovitch, a professor at the University of Geneva who has conducted research into the biomechanical complexity of elephant trunks.įor engineers taking inspiration from elephants, it is essential to realize that they should not only focus on their robots’ motors and other internal materials but also think about “playing with the geometry of the wrapping,” said Dr. By contrast, the underside of the trunk is covered in smaller wrinkles and used for gripping and moving objects but rarely sees the light of day.

The upper surface of an elephant’s trunk needs protection from the sun as well as from other animals, and it has this “flexible armor like Kevlar that has these deep folds that are really, really easily extendable,” Mr.

These different features correspond to the distinct functions that the skin provides.

When they stretched out skin samples taken from a frozen trunk that was preserved from an elephant that died at a zoo, the researchers found the skin at the top of the trunk, with its long folds, was 15 percent more pliable than the wrinkle-covered skin from the bottom of the trunk. Initially, the researchers thought this top-bottom difference in trunk stretching was an error, but further mechanical testing put those doubts to rest. “I still remember literally running to my adviser’s office being an idiot with my laptop in my hand to show him some of these results because it’s so surprising,” Mr.