Swans on Tea

Physics, tech and humor. Because science and learning are cool, and life’s too short not to laugh.

Date: July 1st, 2009

We Stab it with Our Steely Knives

1 July, 2009 (03:00) | Physics, Video |

… but we just can’t kill the beast. Until the fourth try. Fortunately the failed attempts are kinda neat, too.
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My instinct to grab a pointy object to burst the bubble was misplaced, of course. The soap film isn’t a rigid object, [...]

There are Two Kinds of Kludges

1 July, 2009 (03:00) | Tech |

Those which involve duct tape, and those which do not.
There, I fixed it
Someone needs to start an experimentalist version of this (if it does not already exist) — lab kludges