A poetical, time-centric film about fluid dynamics

Flora Lichtman produced another poetical video for Science Friday, this one about the mammal micturation duration research study that is garnering so much attention, and that will be discussed as part of a landmark session at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, November 24, 2013: BONUS: Listen to Science Friday‘s radio […]

The prime minister’s (purported) pee principle

The British prime minister could benefit from studying the research that led to this year’s Ig Nobel Prize in medicine, suggests Leo Hickman, writing in The Guardian: Does David Cameron’s ‘full-bladder technique’ work? The prime minister conducted his EU negotiations while intentionally ‘desperate for a pee’, to achieve maximum focus. What do the experts think? […]

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