Scott Sandford’s classic 1995 AIR article ‘Apples and Oranges: a comparison‘ has recently been translated into Dutch by chemistry teacher Machiel Stolk. The translation ‘Appels en peren: een vergelijking‘ comes together with questions for students on the subject of absorbtion-spectroscopy. Please note that the Dutch are used to compare apples with pears, contrary to oranges: […]
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Fingers: Ching Yuan’s Law
The special The Meaning of the Finger issue of AIR has resulted in a long chain of e-mails from Ching Yuan (age 12) of Taiwan, who nominates himself for an Ig Nobel prize for establishing Ching Yuan’s Law: If you want to bring your fingers to your back bends, and every day you must bend […]
Necking: Plucked but unharmed
Recently, the website of the Danks Ornitologisk Forening (the Danish Ornithological Society) posted a remarkable photo-story of a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) and its prey, a gull, documented by photographer Christine Raaschou-Nielsen and written down (in perfect Danish) by Jan Skriver: Pludselig stak vandrefalken af, og s? dukkede en musv?ge op. Nu troede jeg, at […]
The head of your turkey
If you are not consuming the head of your Thanksgiving Turkey, you may consider the ‘Freeze Dry Service’ offered by Hazel Creek Inc. of Green Castle, Missouri. Here is the procedure: Cut head off and freeze as quickly as possible. Freeze heads in a small amount of water in a Ziploc bag. Place heads in […]