We went into the Doubleday bookshop
at Fifth Avenue and Fifty Second
Street the other day, intending,
in our innocence, to buy a book, and
found all the clerks busy selling Silly
Putty, a gooey, pinkish, repellent-looking
commodity that comes in plastic
containers the size and shape of eggs.
How an
item in the August 26th, 1950
New Yorker's Talk of the Town column turned a marketing consultant into a millionare by Christmas.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Dec 22, 2011 -
31 comments
Vimeo user
Charlie Bucket has created a "Fluid Dress" made from 600 feet of plastic tubing, throughout which courses a controlled mixture of air and fluorescent liquid. The result is
quite fascinating (SLVimeo)
posted by ShutterBun
on Jul 30, 2011 -
32 comments
The Wet-Dog Shake (SLYT). Scientists have worked out the optimum amount of shaking that animals have to do to dry themselves after getting wet. Filming in slow motion, they captured various animals shaking themselves off, from a wet mouse to a big grizzly bear.
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posted by 7-7
on Oct 30, 2010 -
41 comments
Reversible flow! In the 1960s, the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films produced a series of films for education in fluid mechanics. This clip is part of "
Low Reynolds Number Flow"; you can find the entire collection streamed
here. Interesting demonstrations abound.
(1st link is QT; rest are RealPlayer.)
posted by Upton O'Good
on Aug 17, 2007 -
19 comments