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Entries from October 2008

Spaghetti tree

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · biology

In 1957, the BBC show Panorama broadcast a programme about the spaghetti tree in Switzerland. It showed a family harvesting pasta that hung from the branches of the tree.
It was an April Fools’ Day joke.

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True Pie Chart

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · images, mathematics

A hungry mathematician…

Eaten pie.

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Geologic time

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · videos

German short movie.

Official Selection 2008 of CG & Animation Awards.

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IgNobel 2008

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · research

List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (2008)
* Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site. (Brazil)
* Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs [...]

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Chemistry in the Middle Ages

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · chemistry

What happens when the alchemist’s assistant is accused of witchcraft?
Looks like Monty Pyton!

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