If you haven’t come across the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CFSM), and wish to read an academic overview, may we recommend a recent paper in the journal Le religieux sur Internet / Religion on the Web, Vol 8 (2015) ‘When Virtuality Shapes Social Reality. Fake Cults and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti […]
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A super, super slo-mo video look at the snapping of a spaghetti strand
Destin, the star of the SmarterEveryDay video series, takes a very, very slow motion look at the spaghetti-breaking oddity that led to an Ig Nobel Prize in physics: The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their insights into why, when you bend […]
Further past investigations of spaghetti
Investigating how and why a strand of uncooked spaghetti breaks after bending — well that’s a complicated undertaking, with a rich history. One man’s take appears in this writeup: “The dynamics of linear spaghetti structures — how one thing just leads to another,” RWD Nickalls, 14 June, 2006. The author is at the Department of Anaesthesia, […]
Spaghetti Plot Alternatives
When differing longitudinal graphs are overlayed – in order to visualise data from a large number of sauces sources – the results can become confusing – possibly even meaningless. The outcome, in the parlance of data analysts, has turned into a so-called ‘Spaghetti Plot’. (see pic below) But Bruce J. Swihart and his colleagues Brian […]