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By drorzel on August 21, 2013.
After a couple of very productive days where I closed my Twitter tab because it was too freakin annoying to read, I checked in briefly Wednesday morning, and found Rhett Allain and Frank Noschese discussing this Veritasium bullet-in-block experiment:
Tom at Swans On Tea offers some analysis, and Rhett offers a video response doing out some of the math:
I basically agree with their explanations, and that should have been that, except that in his discussion Rhett mentioned that the bullet probably doesn t go as far into the spinning block, which prompted Frank to ask whether you could measure and/or calculate the difference. Which sucked me in, and rather than working on the book chapter I d planned to do this morning, I found myself scribbling equations. Which just goes to show that Twitter is the work of the devil.
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Cheney School in Headington Staff at Cheney School in Oxford are running a breakfast talk series for students to explore science ideas. Every Friday morning in May, the school’s Rumble Museum will run the series of talks for Year Seven students Experts from around the world are delivering a range of virtual talks on different ‘What If?’ questions which involve using science to explore different ideas ranging from pandemics and eating insects to dinosaurs.
October 31, 2017
ScienceBlogs is coming to an end. I don t know that there was ever a really official announcement of this, but the bloggers got email a while back letting us know that the site will be closing down. I ve been absolutely getting crushed between work and the book-in-progress and getting Charlie the…
October 30, 2017
It s been a couple of years since we lost the Queen of Niskayuna, and we ve held off getting a dog until now because we were planning a big home renovation adding on to the mud room, creating a new bedroom on the second floor, and gutting and replacing the kitchen. This was quite the undertaking…
This story is part of a group of stories called 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. In honor of the enduring classics, we re exploring every aspect of Peter Jackson s trilogy, from JRR Tolkien s source material to the best scenes and moments, along with the continued influence of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King on modern pop culture.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy has a dragon’s wealth of indelible cinematic moments to choose from. Who can forget when Samwise Gamgee swam to Frodo Baggins even though he couldn’t swim? Or when Gandalf arrives at the first light to turn the tide against the forces of Isengard? These are touching moments of high emotion that resonate even 20 years after they were first encountered.