Beer foam, as a subject of experimental inquiry, will be on tap at a physics meeting next week: Abstract: H16.00009: “Damping of liquid sloshing by foams: from everyday observations to liquid transport“ 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Sunday–Tuesday, November 23–25, 2014; San Francisco, California, Session H16: Free-Surface Flows V: General, […]
Towards perfecting men’s necktie lengths
Following our recent improbable article on the non-linearities of Windsor Knot tying may we also recommend a paper which might be of particular interest to adult Korean males who wear neckties. Eun-Kyung Park and Jee-Won Hong presented a paper in the Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles, Vol 27, No. 11, 2003, pp. […]
Half Hours with the Lower Animals
Have you half hours that you know would be best spent in company lower than that with which you pretend to be accustomed? Consider, then, spending some of those half hours with lower animals. This book tells one man’s own such story: Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells, Insects, and Crustaceans, […]
Sad news: John Hoyland, father of “nominative determinism”, is gone
Very sad news. John Hoyland, my good friend and longtime collaborator, has died. John created “Feedback“, the best column in New Scientist, my favorite magazine (favorite other than Annals of Improbable Research, of course). As a happy subscriber to New Scientist, I knew and loved John’s work, long before I met him. We began corresponding […]