There are lots of top ten lists, but this is the first Ten Tops List. Here are ten videos of spinning tops that scientists find interesting and or amusing. [Want to take a whirl at learning the science of spinning tops? Download (free) Professor John Perry’s 1890 book Spinning Tops— The “Operatives’ lecture” of the British […]
Tag: dog
Rabbit Rotation: Pleasing and not
We’ve seen that dog rotation can be pleasing (as in the instance we described recently) or not (as in the instance described even more recently). But what of rabbit rotation? Here’s one instance that, one can infer, was not terribly pleasing: “Changes in animal reactivity under the influence of prolonged rotation,” N.I. Arlashchenko and A.A. […]
Dog rotation: not always pleasant
Dog rotation can be pleasing (as in the instance we described recently). But sometimes it’s not — think about the rotation described in this study: “Gastric torsion in the dog—II. Nonsurgical treatment by aspiration of gastric contents during repeated rotation of the animal“, B. Funkquist and N. Obel, Journal of Small Animal Practice, Volume 20, […]
Curing shyness for dogs (2): Gunfire
In this second episode in our deniably-popular Curing Shyness in Dogs series, to entertain you and your dog, and perhaps cure one or both of you of various ailments, we examine, distantly, this Master’s Voice Productions-produced set of CDs. This entertainment and/or cure is, the manufacturer says, “the result of two years of studies, planning […]