Rhett Allain, writing in Wired, took a calculating approach to bubble wrap. He introduced it with these thoughts: How much bubble wrap do you need to survive jumping out of the 6th floor of a building? Let me randomly say this is a height of 20 meters. Where would you start with a question like this? […]
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A Measured Celebration of the Jumping Frog
Mark Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” became the jumping off point, more than a century after the story was written, for a scientific study of frog-jumping performance: “Chasing maximal performance: a cautionary tale from the celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County,” Henry C. Astley, E.M. Abbott, E. Azizi, R.L. Marsh […]
Dog fleas vs cat fleas: demonstration
Someone made this nice little video to demonstrate the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize-winning discovery that (in general) the fleas on a dog can jump higher than the fleas on a cat. BONUS (Unrelated): A web site devoted to imagery of bouncing cats.
If you choose to fall off a mountain [video]
Question: What does it look like when you fall off a mountain? Answer: If you’re lucky, something like this: (Thanks to investigator Wenhua Qifor bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: “Revisiting the fall of the Old Man of the Mountain“