Things that disappear inside small boys; a tall space with a big bottom; something that one particular person does NOT understand; and the ambiguity of Brussels sprouts — these things both turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams —with dramatic readings by Melissa Franklin — tells about:
- Disappearance of things inside boys — “Gastric Disappearance of Dietary Fiber by Adolescent Boys,” S. Gramstorff Fetzer, C. Kies, and H.M. Fox, Cereal Chemistry, vol. 56, 1979, p. 34.
- A tall space, with a small bottom — “A Tall Space With a Small Bottom,” István Juhász, Saharon Shelah, Lajos Soukup, and Zoltán Szentmikl Ossy, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 131, no. 6, 2003, pp. 1907-16.
- Something that one particular person does NOT understand — “On What I Do Not Understand (and Have Something to Say), Part I,” Saharon Shelah, Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol. 166, nos. 1-2, 2000, pp. 1-82.
- The ambiguity of Brussels sprouts — “Brussels Sprouts: An Exceptionally Rich Source of Ambiguity for Anticancer Strategies,” M. Paolini, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, vol. 152, no. 2, October 1998, pp. 293-4.
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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