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Tag: rubber ducks

Rubber ducks in oceanography and finance

February 11, 2012 Marc Abrahams

A song about the Ebbesmeyer analysis of rubber ducks and ocean currents: A demonstration in which a Salmon (Felix Salmon) uses rubber ducks in water to explain the Greek financial crisis:

Arts and Science, Research Newseconomics, financial crisis, Greece, ocean, oceanography, rubber ducks

The Philosophers’ Rubber Duck

October 30, 2011 Martin Gardiner

Of all the things you might imagine you’d find in a professional philosopher’s toolkit, a rubber duck might not be the first to spring to mind. But they are there – and in some abundance. One of the first scholars to hint at their utility was Frances Howard-Snyder, Professor of Ethics, Religion, Metaphysics departments at […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsphilosophy, rubber ducks
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