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Tag: circus

Fire breathing – the dangers

April 23, 2014 Martin Gardiner

“Fire breathing is a stunning but potentially injurious stunt. The fire-breathers direct a mouthful of fuel forcefully or creates a fine mist by spitting through pursed lips which is ignited over a flame resulting in a stunning visual show of plume, pillar, ball, volcano, or a cloud of fire [Figure 2].” The potential injuries are […]

Arts and Scienceact, burns, circus, fire, fire breathing, kerosene, performing

Commercial power generation: Not bug-free

November 3, 2011 Marc Abrahams

This commercial for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor claims [perhaps accurately!] to show that a few bugs can provide enough power to run the chip: [HT Ernesto Charles]

Arts and Sciencebug, circus, commercial, electricity, generation, insect, microprocessor, power

Great Circus Adventures in Accounting (2009)

October 26, 2009 Stephen Drew

The turn of the century brought a new openness to, and maybe even nostalgia and yearning for, accounting adventure, symbolized by the publication of a jaunty paper. “Juggling the Books: The Use of Accounting Information in Circus in Australia,” Lorne Cummings and Mark Valentine St. Leon, Accounting History, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, 2009, pp. 11–33 […]

Research Newsaccounting, australia, circus, Research Articles

Engineering report: Angel, the dangling doofus

June 7, 2009 Marc Abrahams

Last night Elvis and I got to observe something you don’t see very often: a very high-budget, high-tech Las Vegas strip performance go spectacularly wrong…. I’ve never seen Mr. Angel before, so I don’t know what he’s like on TV. But he doesn’t really do much of anything in the show. I mean, he pulls […]

Arts and Sciencecircus, dangle, engineering
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