The physicist who won an Ig Nobel Prize for analyzing whether buttered toast usually falls on the buttered side has now examined the similar question: what happens when you drop a mobile phone? The Digit web site reports: Why do phones always seem fall with their screen facing down? While most people would be satisfied […]
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Ig Nobel-winning research could, maybe, save McDonald’s from ‘Minions’ lawsuits
The Associated Press reports: McDonald’s receives complaints about ‘Minions’ toys using curse words by Marley Jay, The Associated Press Published Friday, July 10, 2015 NEW YORK — McDonald’s swears up and down that the little yellow “Minions” Happy Meal toy is speaking only nonsense words and not something a little more adult. Experts say the […]
Further Physics of Tumbling Toast
It was back in 1844 that the Victorian poet and satirist James Payn wrote : “I’ve never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, but fell upon a sanded floor, and always on the buttered-side.” Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist this poetic generalisation may […]