ben goldacre witters on and on and on about things that are too long to post on twitter and not clever enough to post on his main blog at www.badscience.net
you'll know - from pouring thick cream or shampoo - that a nice smooth stream of viscous liquid gunk tends to coil up as it lands on a surface. the awesome video below comes from an academic paper, which set out to explore that phenomenon by tipping a viscous fluid onto a moving belt. first you get a line, then some nice sine waves as the belt slows down, then some lovely, regular, reproducible coiling. i don't mind telling you that i find this footage IMMENSELY satisfying.
via http://io9.com/5872825/heres-a-beautiful-fluid-dynamics-experiment-that-begin... and then via the awesomely named: http://fuckyeahfluiddynamics.tumblr.com/ which is my new obsession.
I like stats. I'm a doctor. I write about dodgy scientific claims in my spare time.
This isn't my main blog. Find me here:
Blog:
www.badscience.net/
Book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X/?tag=bs0b-21
Tweet:
www.twitter.com/bengoldacre
TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html
I like stats. I'm a doctor. I write about dodgy scientific claims in my spare time.
This isn't my main blog. Find me here:
Blog:
www.badscience.net/
Book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/dp/000728487X/?tag=bs0b-21
Tweet:
www.twitter.com/bengoldacre
TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html
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