Returning to Naples after a short summer holiday in Belfast, we encountered a series of mysteries in our apartment…
Twenty years ago, somebody impaled a 60-pound pumpkin 170 feet off the ground on the spire at Cornell University. Nobody knows who did this or how they did it… here’s my response to my Yale roommates after a discussion of this classic prank …
Back at the turn of the century, I was sure that “The New Yorker” magazine would publish my cartoon drawing…
Look closely at this bunch of imposters. Zoom in on the tops and you will see a cool example of defensive mimicry!
Mystery UN-solved! Is it gold or is it black? The theory that the gold dome reflects clear and cloudy sky differently is reinforced by this. But I am at a loss as to how to explain it.
Zalenskyi, knowing the power of communication, changed the county’s “Rules of Appropriate Language” to allow Ukrainian print and broadcast media to openly use the phrase “Russian Warship, go F$CK yourselves.”
Mystery solved! I was unhappy not to have given an expiation of why the dome of St. Paul Orthodox Church here in Naples was shockingly was black….
Cloth from Viking and medieval archaeological sites shows that women literally made the money in the North Atlantic…
Roxanne…. As I was looking at your new home in Google Earth, I noticed that your GPS address is essentially 30 North by 90 West…
This is a very worthwhile compendium of optical illusions with explanations of what is going on in your personal perception of each one….
Here we have a physics professor using a large spandex sheet to illustrate gravitation. It is a real-live simulation, not a CGI rendering
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
In my Top Secret days with Barnes Engineering, on visits to various government facilities, there was expectedly lots of security. Here’s a tale of my oddest experience …
This is one of the crystals my father collected in Germany at a “dark, filthy, wet mine, with a gift shop." It was prominently displayed on his desk at Barnes Engineering.
I had never seen the wonderful falling-block illusion. The last one, with the mystery of a square disappearing from the triangular area, is much more fun as a GIF.
What a fabulous collection of unnecessary warning signage. You can see the well-intentioned rules that are being blindly followed ...
This is one major reason people in cars can look right at you (when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle)---AND NOT SEE YOU.
For the past year and a half, two friends and I have been having a two hour lunch together at Wyndemere every Tuesday, missing only a few.
After visiting the Wyndemere Board Room and seeing the amazing table top, I wondered how such gorgeous slabs of wood are, well “harvested.”
When these two images came over the internet from friends who send me such things, I could not get over the similarity: Six lions and six honeybees side-by-side at the water’s edge
As part of our Viking Russia trip, Bev and I spent a day exploring this militarized Swedish island.
I spent half and hour watching these three fishermen through my telescope pulling in big fish across the bay. The image its poor because it was tipping-down-rain at the time.
This looks like a scene from a mystery movie or the library at Hogwarts…
A nifty optical illusion or perception trick…
I am always delighted to see an excellent graphic depiction of a complicated dataset.
This little video about Pendulum Waves could be the heart of an entire physics lecture ....simple, elegant, beautiful.
I think you will particularly like this luminous image of Stonehenge. But, I noticed the disparity between a rising red Sun on the horizon and the well illuminated sarsen and lintel stones.
A clever depiction of the proof that the area of a circle is Pi r squared
