Woodpeckers and hammers — and the relationship of woodpeckers and hammers — dominate this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams —with dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg — tells about:
- Woodpecker-like hammers — Vincent, Julian F. V., Mehmet Necip Sahinkaya, and W. O’Shea (2007). ‘A Woodpecker Hammer.’ Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science 221 (10): 1141–7. / .
- Splitting the bill at a restaurant —[this segment is sponsored by Freshbooks] “The Inefficiency of Splitting the Bill,” Uri Gneezy, Ernan Haruvy and Hadas Yafe, The Economic Journal, vol. 114, April 2004, pp. 265–280.
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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