“Researcher baffled by document written by artillery master Franz Helm featuring pictures of jetpacks strapped to cats and doves” is the subheadline on an Associated Press article in The Guardian. It tells of a discovery made by University of Pennsylvania scholar Mitch Frass [pictured here, right]. Here’s the cat/dove picture (you can see it and […]
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Shooting a Football Fan with a Signal Rocket
A game of football can, even after the fact, generate forensic interest. A case in point: “Singular Case of Shooting a Football Fan with a Signal Rocket,” M. Kobek, K. Rygol, C. Chowaniec, A. Nowak, Forensic Science International, Volume 147, Supplement, 17 January 2005, Pages S43-S44. The authors, at the Medical University of Silesia in […]
MacBeth and the flying Christmas tree
Thirty-two model-rocket engines power a Christmas tree. (Thanks to BoingBoing for bringing this to our attention.) It’s evocative, as so many things are, of MacBeth’s words in act 5, scene 5 of the Shakespeare play: ‘Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane:’ and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! […]