Carole and Jay Furr
The Otter and Lemur Chronicles
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Well, That’s Nice To Know
From the “Freedom of Information” desk, a missive from the Prime Minister’s office down in New Zealand (click to enlarge):
If you watch only one movie trailer today, make it be this one
For twenty years I’ve been a supporter of the Duke University Lemur Center’s mission to save these exciting, charming, zany prosimian primates from extinction. And I can honestly say that in all that time, no video related to that mission has excited me as…
Cooking With Potential Energy
Oldie but goodie: cooking a turkey with “potential energy” (i.e., throwing it repeatedly out of a tall building): http://www.ohio.edu/mechanical/thermo/Intro/Chapt.1_6/energy/CookingPE.pdf This comes to us from the “science” journal, “The Journal of Irreproducible Results”, which I first encountered circa 1989 when I was working in the…
Carole Furr
Jay Furr