Another attempt to use physics to try to begin to understand the behavior of children: “Emergence of Social Phases in Human Movement,” Yi Zhang, Debasish Sarker, Samantha Mitsven, Lynn Perry, Daniel Messinger, Udo Rudolph, Michael Siller, and Chaoming Song, Physical Review E, vol. 110, no. 4, 2024, article 044303. The authors explain: “We observed two […]
A deep sea encounter between a crab and some apparently appetizing methane gas bubbles, documented on video: (Thanks to Upasana Sarraju for bringing this to our our attention.)
A quick video visit with the winner of the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize for biology:
If you want a reliable method of raising a laugh, you can always resort to references of flatulence – a comedic ploy that goes back (at least) 2000 years. But the question as to why it’s considered funny, remains, to this day, a hotly debated subject. In 2013, Professor James Spiegel of the Philosophy Department at […]
