Here is today’s physics exercise: Using the information in this short video of the Flugel Flea Circus, estimate the speed of the flea-drawn vehicles, and then estimate the force exerted by a vehicle-drawing flea. (Thanks to investigator Phyllis Mayrieres for bringing this to our attention.)
Year: 2008
The Inventive Inventions of Dotts
A look back at an ovoidal innovation and other work The name of inventor Hiram S. Dotts is now less well known that it once was. So, too, are his inventions, two of which—perhaps Dotts’s most enduringly influential—are described here. Dotts’s Egg-Opener Be it known that I, HIRAM S. DOTTS, a citizen of the United […]
Penny Boston joins LFHCfS
Penny Boston has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: This photo, taken at the TED conference, is evidence of my flowing hair, although half the time it (the hair) is jammed under a caving helmet. Penelope J. Boston, PhD, LFHCfS Director, Cave and Karst Studies Program Assoc. Prof. Earth and Environmental […]
Footnoted in Passing
Of the Reticence of Rats The sixteenth-century French lawyer Bartholomew Chassannée made his name defending rats accused of eating grain. When the rats were summoned to appear in court but never showed up, he invoked the right exercised by human beings to refuse to obey a summons to a place where they are in danger. […]