The claims made in lawsuits – and the need to verify or disprove them – sometimes spark interesting research. The Acoustical Society of America’s Fall 2017 meeting included a report titled, “Sound pressures generated by exploding eggs”. Investigators Anthony Nash and Lauren von Blohn began this research thanks to a lawsuit: A restaurant had hard-boiled […]
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Why Are Bird Eggs Bird-Egg-Shaped? [New research from an Ig Nobellian]
Mahadevan, who won an Ig Nobel Physics Prize in 2007 for studying how/why wrinkled sheets become wrinkled, has a new study out about how/why bird eggs become bird-egg shaped. The study, by Mahadevan and several collaborators, is: “Avian Egg Shape: Form, Function, and Evolution,” Mary Caswell Stoddard, Ee Hou Yong, Derya Akkaynak, Catherine Sheard, Joseph […]
Eggs (spinning) in milk – study
Have you ever wondered why a hard-boiled egg, or a pool ball, spinning on a countertop and passing through a puddle of milk, draws milk up the side of the egg and then ejects it at the maximum radius? So did Ken Langley, Jeff Hendricks, Matthew Elverud, Dan Maynes and Tadd Truscott of Brigham Young […]
Egging the world on
A self-authenticated report from a Yealand Estate, a farm in New Zealand, indicate that playing classical music induces hens to lay larger eggs: LARGER EGGS FROM PLAYING CLASSICAL MUSIC TO OUR CHOOKS Wayne, our resident bird expert & mechanic at Yealands, has been measuring eggs taken from chooks from our vineyard block where we play […]
Chickens, Consciousness, and the LHC
Dr. Dainis Zeps, a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia, is one of the very few to have investigated “hierarchical multitime notion and of the cone of creation” with reference to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. His paper on the subject, ‘On to What Effect LHC Experiment […]
Prof. Nishiyama – #2 – The Zen of clutch maintenance (eggs)
Bearing in mind that the word ‘ovoid’ means ‘egg-shaped’, the question : ‘Why are eggs ovoid?’ has much in common with questions like or ‘Why are hearts heart-shaped?’ or ‘Why are sausages sausage-shaped?’ And the Zen-like qualities of the egg-shape question have not escaped professor Yutaka Nishiyama, (Osaka University of Economics, Japan) who decided to […]
When eggs were falling
“EGGS ARE FALLING“, says an ambiguously worded headline in the March 12, 1910 issue of the Lawrence Daily World. BONUS: The much later development of the square egg BONUS (and possibly bogus, despite and because of which it drew angry letters from the same person): Experiment: Which Came First — The Chicken Or the Egg?
The development of the square egg
Through millions of years of evolution, the shape of an egg has evolved to an optimum – at least from a hen’s point of view. For some humans though, this shape is less than ideal – there are those who prefer instead the aesthetic appeal of a cuboid rather than ovoid. For technical (and ethical) […]
Food clues from Chinese hammering
The Department of Biosystems Engineering, at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, has an ongoing scientific interest in lightly tapping quasi-spherical food items and observing the results. So far they have investigated : Pears, Peaches and Melons. And, surprisingly perhaps, the latest under the hammer are hens’ eggs. For it has been discovered that when exposed to […]
Don’t blame the bear. Blame the gull.
There is news about polar bears, barnacle geese and their eggs. BBC News reports: An Arctic expedition has confirmed fears that polar bears are preying on the eggs of barnacle geese that migrate to the Solway Firth each winter. During a recent trip, scientists discovered evidence of bears eating thousands of eggs. The bears have […]