Rebecca Slayton, Darius Widera, Rebecca Daw, Ralph Bernstein adn kathleen Fix have joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS).
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Feynman ice cream
There is, or at least was briefly, an ice cream flavor created in honor of physicist Richard Feynman. Devised by Toscanini’s Ice Cream, it was inspired by the story that earlier inspired the name of the classic book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Sausage carpets
This year there were sausage rugs at the Cologne Furniture Fair. The sausage rugs are in several patterns: Salami, Bierschinken, Mortadella und Blutwurst. (MINOR NOTE: Philosophers may dispute that a rug is the same thing as a carpet. They are welcome to get in touch with the manufacturer and discuss that question.) (Thanks to Chris […]
The falling cat experiment
In discussing Reto Schneider’s book of weird experiments, we forgot to mention that Schneider’s site includes a histrical video snippet of the falling cats experiment. That experiment, of course, has a later echo in a certain article that appeared in (and on the cover of) the July/August 1998 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.