The description of this phlegm thrower suffers a bit from machine-translation woes: “Suction Device and Usable Ejection for Care,” French patent application FR2889070A1, Michel Brun, filed July 27, 2005. The application says, sort of: “This apparatus comprises a hollow tubular body, a piston 3 slidably mounted and sealed in the body 2, and means 13 […]
Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai, were jointly awarded the 2014 Ig Nobel Physics Prize for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that’s on the floor. REFERENCE: “Frictional Coefficient under […]
A press release issued by the American Physical Society demonstrates how to attract a crowd. We have underlined the msot effective passages: The 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) takes place this month from November 21-23, 2010 at the Long Beach Convention Center, located in downtown Long […]