FYFD alerts us to this video of a well-accented man, his oobleck, and his hydraulic press: The man is from the Hydraulic Press Channel. FYFD adds some charmed explanation of the goings on: Oobleck is probably the Internet’s favorite non-Newtonian fluid. People vibrate it, run across it,shoot it, drop it, and even use it to fix […]
Tag: paper
What a difference a colon makes (to academic citations)
Following our recent report on the (report of the) finding that Short Paper Titles Tend to Have a Longer Reach (Improbable Research, June 16th 2016) we now inform about (research about) another possible method that academic authors might use to lever increased attention for their paper – with the disarmingly simple trick of adding a […]
Would this scholarly paper exist if Dr. Lebens hadn’t written it?
“This paper wants to know whether it would exist, or could exist, in worlds in which I didn’t write it. Before we can answer this question, we first of all have to inquire as to what, exactly, this paper is. After exploring two forms of Platonism (pure and impure), and a theory that defines literary […]
A generator of lyrics and music from academic papers
“This work attempts to create lyrics from academic papers and appropriate melodies to go with them. We believe this system can also be modified to use different initial data sources, be it text sources for the lyrics or music sources for the music style. We chose academic papers as input due to their diversity and […]
OUR IMPROBABLE FUTURE: PDFs Will Replace Paper
UPDATE (October 2015): We have now converted the magazine to PDFs. No more paper! You can now subscribe to the PDF edition of the magazine. (The November/December 2015 issue will be the final issue that we also publish on paper — all new issues after that will be exclusively in PDF form!) * [Here, below, is the […]
How to write a technical paper (c.1956)
To complement Improbable’s archives on the subject of “How to write *“ [1] ‘How To Write A Scientific Paper’ [2] ‘How to Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature’ [3] ‘How to Write a Scientific Paper’ (again) [4] ‘How to write a crank letter‘ [5] ‘How to write a love letter‘ Can we also now recommend ‘How […]
Profiling the IJIRS journal
Gopal Chakraborty, B.Sc (Physics Hons.), M.Sc (Physics), CWD, PHD (Pursuing), Assistant Professor of Physics, GKCEM, JIS GROUP, is the editor-in-chief of an unusual academic publication entitled : The International Journal Of Innovative Research and Studies (ISSN: 2319-9725). It’s unusual in several respects – in that it’s a monthly, multidisciplinary, international, English language journal, with zero-level […]
A mile of pi, unrolled on an airport landing strip
If you print out the first million digits of the number pi, on a piece of paper a mile (slightly more than a mile, really) long, then unroll the paper, you will see something like what you see in this video made by Brady Haran for NumberPhile:
Old books up your nose [2]
Are E-book enthusiasts missing out on the olfactory aspects of reading a good-smelling book? The technical aspects of volatile degradation products emitted by books has been examined before, see: Improbable Research, Old books up your nose [1], but a later paper in the Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (Vol 7, 2011) goes on to examine […]
Of powered paper airplanes, and the great outdoors
Paper airplanes are a tradition at the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, dating back to the ceremony’s earliest years. Technology has now advanced to the point where it necessary, for safety, to place a technological limitation on ceremonial flight. An inventive little tiny leap in electromechanical engineering has brought powered flight — that is powered […]