Someone made this nice little video to demonstrate the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize-winning discovery that (in general) the fleas on a dog can jump higher than the fleas on a cat. BONUS (Unrelated): A web site devoted to imagery of bouncing cats.
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If you choose to fall off a mountain [video]
Question: What does it look like when you fall off a mountain? Answer: If you’re lucky, something like this: (Thanks to investigator Wenhua Qifor bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: “Revisiting the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain“
Fleas’ knees news: No. Feet!
The French team of Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc garnered the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat. Now comes further flea news, this time from the University of Cambridge (Thanks to investigator […]
Dog & cat flea-jump tribute video
Someone made a tribute video, inspired by the 2008 Ig Nobel physics prize winners. Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France were honored for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat.