A slinky behaves in ways that might surprise you, unless you have really, really thought through the physics of it. This three part video shows all, in beautiful slow motion:
Tag: Physics
What was that Again?: Decay of Attention in Science
The only thing in science than may be even more prominent than the data deluge is the paper deluge: there is an increasingly large number of scholarly (and “scholarly”) journals, and an ever-increasing wealth of papers to fill them. Clearly, this calls for a paper to analyze the situation. In a new study on the […]
Flaccid Mechanics: From Penis-Size Statistics to Penis-Size Physics
As recently discussed in this blog and elsewhere, a team of UK researchers have published a new study with the scintillating title of Am I normal? A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to 15521 men. The first sentence of the paper’s introduction sums things […]
For gummy bear chem/physics enthusiasts
Gummy bears figure prominently in two recent studies: “Drying Gummy Bears Reduce Anti-Matter Lifetime,” Christoph Hugenschmidt und Hubert Ceeh. (Thanks to Jan Kuriplach for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at Technische Universität München, Germany. They write: “The exotic atom consisting of an electron and its antiparticle, the positron, is a bound state called positronium. Such positronium atoms […]