“All over the world, mostly adolescent boys enjoy building and firing […] combustion-powered guns launching chunks of potatoes into the environment.” “Although potato cannons are an area of great interest among internet users, they are almost completely unknown in the medical community.” At least they were – until details of the experimental work by Matthias […]
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Panting by Numbers for Super-Scholars
Do you pant with excitement to learn which scholar is the most very smartest and/or most very most influential? If you do, then try using the Scholarometer. An article in Nature magazine describes the excitement that drives the people who wrote the software that delivers the numbers: Who is the best scientist of them all? Is theoretical […]
Analysis of certain aspects of a falling pomelo
This study of a pomelo falls, somewhat and so to speak, in the tradition of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts“: “Viscoelasticity and compaction behaviour of the foam-like pomelo (Citrus maxima) peel,” Marc Thielen, Thomas Speck, Robin Seidel, Journal of Materials Science, vol. 48, no. 9, May 2013, pp. 3469-3478. The […]