The Neuroskeptic blog looks at how how a super-masterful sausage slicer makes sausage slices: Scientific Salami Slicing: 33 Papers from 1 Study “Salami slicing” refers to the practice of breaking scientific studies down into small chunks and publishing each part as a separate paper. Given that scientists are judged in large part by the number […]
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Ig Nobel winner’s turkey (and other) carving insight
The BBC celebrates a newly published study by Mahadevan [pictured here], the man who (with colleague Enrique Cerda Villablanca) was awarded the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for studying how sheets get wrinkled. The new study is: “Slicing Softly with Shear,” E. Reyssat, T. Tallinen, M. Le Merrer, and L. Mahadevan, Physical Review Letters, epub […]
How to make a moebius bagel
George W. Hart devised an elegant, mathematical way to slice a bagel [AIR 16:1]: It is not hard to cut a bagel into two equal halves which are linked like two links of a chain. The line ABCDA, which goes smoothly through all four key points, is the cut line. As it goes 360 degrees […]