Basile Audoly — who shared the 2006 Ig Nobel prize for physics with Sebastien Neukirch for insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces — has a new study about the physics of rodeo lassoing. The new paper is: “An introduction to the mechanics of the lasso,” Pierre-Thomas Brun, Neil […]
Tag: Mechanics
Differential gears: The Movie
A ten-minute-long 1930’s extravaganza presentation about differential gears (Thanks to investigator Jennifer Hurley for bringing this to our attention): BONUS: Video of a much older AND younger set of differential gears: the antikythera mechanism; and of a logo version of same.
Engineering frontiers: The untapped power of breast motion
Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion one day recently I had an idea. As I rode public transportation to the office, my messenger bag slung uncomfortably across my chest, I thought, “Why not put the girls to work?” Human-powered devices are showing up everywhere, from Rotterdam’s sustainable dance floor to human-powered gyms in Hong […]