If you know one of the many people who are immediately and always deeply fascinated by all things Tesla, make sure your acquaintance is familiar with the shark spiral intestines Tesla valve research study. That study is: “Shark Spiral Intestines May Operate as Tesla Valves,” Samantha C. Leigh, Adam P. Summers, Sarah L. Hoffmann, and […]
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More Bite than an Old Saw? A Saw Made with Shark Teeth
Francie Diep’s article “Watch a Power Saw Made with Shark Teeth Slice Through Salmon“, in Popular Science magazine, is well headlined, and has a video that shows a power saw, made with shark teeth, slicing through salmon. The research Diep describes was itself described by the researchers at a meeting earlier this month: “Jawzall: Effects of […]
Ig winners comment on “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus”
We asked three Ig Nobel Prize-winning experts on sea life to comment on the soon-to-be-released horror film “Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.” [The image below will, if you click it, show a trailer for the film]. Charles Paxton (co-winner, 2002 Ig Nobel biology prize for the study “Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming […]
