{"id":4604,"date":"2014-09-21T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2014-09-21T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:39:20","slug":"4604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/09\/21\/4604\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Banana skins are slippery&#039;, say Japanese physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wpclipart.com\/cartoon\/signs\/more_signs\/warning_banana_skin.png\" alt=\"Banana\" width=\"225\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai have won the 2014  Ig Nobel Prize in physics for their paper on <em>measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that&#8217;s on the floor<\/em> [1].<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Bananas  are my second favourite fruit, just behind Polish apples, so it is nice to see them feature in world-class physics research. More than that, slipping on a banana skip is the pinnacle of slapsick comedy and deserves more scientific attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><br \/>\n[1] Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai,  Frictional Coefficient under Banana Skin, <em>Tribology Online<\/em> <strong>7<\/strong>, no. 3, 2012, pp. 147-151. (Available online<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstage.jst.go.jp\/article\/trol\/7\/3\/7_147\/_article\" title=\"banana paper\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/#ig2014\" title=\"Ig\" target=\"_blank\">The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai have won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for their paper on measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that&#8217;s on the floor [1]. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/09\/21\/4604\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#039;Banana skins are slippery&#039;, say Japanese physicists<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}