If you like flipping coins, and you like water, and you like contemplating how you might combine those two interests, consider this line of approach: “Coins falling in water,” Luke Heisinger, Paul K. Newton [pictured here, above]] and Eva Kanso [pictured here, below], Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 742, March 2014, pp. 243-253. (Thanks to investigator […]
Another twist on swearing in two languages
There’s a new twist (the old twist was pretty twisty, it was) in understanding the power of a multilingual person who swears in one language versus another: “Second Language as an Exemptor from Sociocultural Norms. Emotion-Related Language Choice Revisited,” Marta Gawinkowska [pictured here], Michał B. Paradowski, Michał Bilewicz, PLoS ONE, 8(12), 2013, e81225. (Thanks to […]
VR – Mysteries of the scent projector (part 1)
For those in the VR (Virtual Reality) world, there’s an old problem, how can scents be reliably delivered to individuals in an audience at the right place and the right time? Although many attempts have been made – with varying degrees of success – it took until 2003 for the vortex ring scent canon to […]
“An animal may have holes”
“An animal may have holes.” So says the report: “Animal enumerations on regular tilings in Spherical, Euclidean, and Hyperbolic 2-dimensional spaces,” Tomás Oliveira e Silva, July 25, 2013. The author, at the Departamento de Eletrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, writes: “An animal with area n is any edge-connected set of n polygons (chosen […]