Congratulations to our good friend and colleague Dr. Nicole Sharp, creator of FYFD (which is the grandest fluid dynamics exploration/adventure on the internet), who is now officially statuesque. A statue of her will soon be on display on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in company with statues of some fellow scientists: From March 5 […]
Secrets will be revealed about how the the secrets were revealed about what was secreted inside a seemingly simple statue: When the sculpture arrived in the United States in 1937, a visiting Japanese conservator discovered that it contained an extraordinary cache of more than 70 dedicatory objects. It has taken over 80 years to begin […]
As the heavens inevitably cover every mountain peak with snow, so do pigeons unstoppably deposit a protective white layer atop every outdoor statue – or so people believed. Yukio Hirose shocked and delighted the world by disproving one of these two supposedly eternal truths. He used arsenic to do it. Chemistry provides a way to communicate […]