A Textbook Example
Corruption in textbook selection
A copy of the chapter in Richard Feyman’s Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman in which he serves on a textbook selection committee, and some followup commentary.
Date: October 25th, 2008
Superman Already Knew This
Sticky tape generates X-rays
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists’ own fingers
Only when you do it in a vacuum, though. Not clear (the concept, not the tape) if [...]
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