The Tripe Marketing Board presents A Brief History of Fridge Magnets: BONUS: The history continues past that point, of course. Part of it is documented in this study: “Design, manufacture, and test of an adiabatic demagnetization Refrigerator Magnet for use in space,” Steve Milward, Stephen Harrison, Robin Stafford Allen, Ian D. Hepburn, Christine Brockley-Blatt [pictured […]
Year: 2014
The trucker, his family and their pubic lice
Recent medical reports of pubic lice infestations are rare, but here we share a novelty, published in Tropical Biomedicine 30(1): 152–154 [First report of family infestation with pubic louse (Pthirus pubis; Insecta: Anoplura: Pthiridae) in Iran – a case report]. The authors, R. Dehghani, M. Limoee, and A.R. Ahaki, from Kashan and Kermanshah Universities of […]
Physicists try to analyze child custody
A team of physicists and mathematicians attempted to apply their physics knowledge to understanding how divorced couples can better deal with custody of the children: “The physics of custody,” Andres Gomberoff, Victor Munoz and Pierre Paul Romagnoli, arXiv:1305.0935v3, December 19, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Judith Weaver for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at […]
Perfecting the Schnitzel-Laser
Moti Fridman alerted us to the existence of the schnitzel-laser. Fridman wrote: “They showed how a laser can find by itself the correct phase to lase at in order to go through a thin chicken breast with no aberrations, when it is put inside the cavity. In a talk they called it the schnitzel-laser. This research shows beautifully the […]