If you’ve ever used The Tube (the underground railway system) in London, there’s a very good chance you’ll know about this announcement : What’s perhaps less well known is the wealth (perhaps even the plethora) of academic papers which have taken advantage of the phrase in their titles. Here are but a few examples : […]
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Toilet paper papers – a partial resumé
Following on from our recent note regarding ‘A Time/Cost Assessment of Toilet-Paper Folding, Worldwide’ may we also recommend a non-exhaustive selection of other toilet paper papers which may be perused at your convenience :- ● A System for Identifying Toilet User by Characteristics of Paper Roll Rotation ● Objective Hand Measurement of Toilet Paper ● […]
A randomness as to which of a scientist’s publications will have the most oomph
Despite common belief (and some earlier research on the question) that success tends to come early for scientists, a scientist’s single most successful publication is likely to occur at any point in the sequence of papers that she or he publishes. That’s the gist of a new study. The study explains that people in general tend to produce […]
A man, his oobleck, and his hydraulic press
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 […]