“Dice Become Ordered When Stirred, Not Shaken” is a headline on a snappy summary of a new physics paper. The headline, and the summary, are published in Physics Focus. Their own summary of their summary: “A jumble of thousands of cubic dice, agitated by an oscillating rotation, can rapidly become completely ordered, a result that […]
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Strangulated, Shaken and Inverted, for medical reasons
For details of this study (“Cases of Strangulated Hernia, Treated by Inflation of the Bowels, and by Shaking the Patient Whilst in an Inverted Position,” R Griffin, British Medical Journal, 1864), see Alice Dreger’s blog.