Dave Brooks at Granite Geek alerts us to low-flying research that echoes, distantly, the Ig Nobel Prize-winning innovation of using a remote-control helicopter to gather whale snot. The University of New Hampshire news service reports: To survey pits dug by horseshoe crabs in the sediments of the Great Bay Estuary, researchers attached a small camera […]
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The tale of the whale and the parachute
Potvin ([seen here] with an accelerometer on his head) has been helping the biologists build a sophisticated physical model of a feeding fin whale. They set out to build a model that would produce the kinds of behavior that real whales do. For example, a fin whale will dive hundreds of feet down in search […]
Giant skimmer works by mixing metaphors
A big boat skims oil from the sea by collecting metaphors and mixing them, it appears from a CNN report: New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) – A ship billed as the world’s largest skimming vessel has begun testing its effectiveness in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for its owner, Taiwanese company TMT Shipping, said Saturday.The […]
Agrees object is not Prussian
Dr. Minka Cosgrove writes [AIR 15:6]: I disagree with Doris Morra (AIR Vents 15:4) and Sugreeva Baliga (AIR Vents 15:5) that Olivia Rausch is necessarily a moron. I of course agree with them that the photo in Rausch’s article (“Museum Treasures for Children,” AIR 14:7) does not show a “disused late-nineteenth century Prussian cannon shell” […]