A furred animal shakes itself dry at a characteristic frequency. This video documents the physics of it, in slow motion accompanied by music. This study, from which the video is descended, explains the detail: “Wet Animals Shake at Tuned Frequencies to Dry,” Andrew K. Dickerson, Zachary G. Mills, and David L. Hu, Journal of the […]
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Love-words have been disappearing from love songs
Words about love are, or at least were, disappearing from love songs. This University of Colorado study quantified the phenomenon: “Expressions of love, sex, and hurt in popular songs: A content analysis of all-time greatest hits,” Richard L. Dukes [pictured here], Tara M. Bisel, Karoline N. Borega, Eligio A. Lobato, Matthew D. Owens, The Social Science […]
Kidney Beans at 9.89 GHz ?
Is 9.89 gigaherz the optimal frequency at which to scan kidney bean crops in order to obtain ground-based multi-temporal, multi-angle and co-polarized scatterometer X-band data? Your opinion on that may or may not change when you read the study: “Estimation of kidney bean crop variables using ground-based scatterometer data at 9.89 GHz“, Rajendra Prasada, International […]