The Microscopy Society of America provides (via its journal Microscopy Today) a platform for microscopists to ask pertinent questions – and have them answered by their columnist Herr Abbe. [pictured left] “We are at our wit’s end! We are still using film and making wet prints in our EM [Electro-Microscopy] lab. We’re not happy with […]
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Reed M. N. Weep (retired)
Improbable apologises for the late notice regarding the retirement of columnist Reed M. N. Weep from the scholarly journal Bulletin for the Study of Religion. An announcement of his retirement from the journal, and indeed academia in general, can be found here. The journal also lists his recent columns. May we recommend : ‘When Did […]
Blowing the feathers off a chicken
In a 1975 monograph called Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed, Bernard Vonnegut considers what might happen to a dead chicken if it were fired from a cannon. He explains: “One way of estimating the wind in a tornado vortex is to determine by experiment what air speed is required to blow all […]