money reunion
In the same spirit of boiling eggs, Chung To Kong has found a way to make banknotes from shredded banknote pieces (Feedback, September 10, 2022).
Cong from the University of Hong Kong writes: “At the Hong Kong Monetary Authority Visitor Center, visitors can buy souvenir paperweights filled with shredded banknotes. Even though the shredded banknotes are small, they can be made into jigsaw puzzles using computer vision. Entire banknotes can be recovered, such as: The souvenir paperweights cost HK$100 each and are claimed to contain shredded banknotes equivalent to 138 HK$1,000 banknotes. In theory, we could recover HK$138,000 by using computer vision.”
Mr Kong visited the visitor center and explained this to the staff. As a result, “paperweight souvenirs are no longer available,” he says. Anyone who wants to make money can get more information from Kong's paper.Potential to make $138,000 from shredded banknote pieces using computer vision”.
big bite
Highly educated humans are trying to discern what happened in the first moments of two momentous events: the first bite of chocolate and the birth of the universe. Maria Charalambides and her team at Imperial College London are trying to figure out the mystery of Byte, just as many physicists are trying to figure out what happened during the cosmic Big Bang. We are working on this.
The research of Charalambides and her team, “Multiscale finite element analysis model to predict the effect of microaeration on chocolate fragmentation during first bite” is published. European Journal of Mechanics – A/Solids. Their goal is to boldly take on the challenge of exploring areas that no one has gone before in their research on “structures that reduce heat generation while enhancing taste perception.'' They explored the final moments when the chocolate was still fresh, before it came into contact with digestive fluids and hardened.
Karalamvides isn't a chocolate-is-space fanatic. She co-authored her 1995 classic paper.Study on the influence of ripening on the mechanical properties of cheddar cheese”. It tells the story of how her team dropped chunks of cheese from different heights. This produced crushed cheese and a large amount of data. These two quantities were individually When consumed, it provides nourishment and pleasure to a large portion of humanity.
achievable beer glass
In Britain, where warm beer is prized or tolerated,Beer glass optimization “Shaped to minimize heat transfer during consumption'' may raise some eyebrows. This is a cool study in Brazil, where hot beer is a bit of a problem. Mason Porter was adamant about this and brought it to the attention of Feedback magazine.
Author Claudio de Castro Pellegrini of Brazil's Federal University of São João del Rey identifies two “feasible” shapes. Both are “considered gross for most non-alcoholic consumers, have fairly large opening radii, and require wide feet for balance,” he says. However, he cautions that “as with cutting a pizza, a mathematically optimized problem solution can be somewhat complex to actually implement.”
237x gift
For Mansi Gupta and her team, the very existence of the gift is a gift to be grateful for. And analyzed. Mr. Gupta is the lead author of the study called “.Bibliographical analysis of gifts“, published in psychology and marketing.
Gupta and his team, based at India's Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, note that although “consumer gift-giving behavior has received much attention from marketing scholars,” “a bibliography of 237 articles on gift-giving” He stated that he decided to conduct a scientific analysis. . Key accomplishments stated: This paper provides readers with a “state-of-the-art overview of the consumer gifting literature and identifies opportunities for future gifting research.”
all-important ketchup
The discussion of having a robot use ketchup as a non-Newtonian fluid suitable for polishing glass surfaces (Feedback, March 16, 2024) is reminiscent of earlier unexpected uses of ketchup. Half a century ago, ketchup became a red flag topic in psychology.Calvin Trillin later wrote about this in a magazine. nation.
Mr Trillin said that before US President Richard Nixon was forced to resign, he was “famous for eating cottage cheese with ketchup for lunch at his desk, a dish that seemed very strange to most Americans”. “It was felt that the appeal to Nixon was being exploited by the enemy.” Comments on his personality. During his second term, the White House released information that the president began eating cottage cheese without ketchup. Perhaps this information was what Washington commentators hoped to use as evidence against Nixon. , grew up in the Presidency.
“That could have happened, except for one problem. The information about ketchup had come from the White House during President Nixon's second term, so no one would have believed it.”
We'd also like to hear your feedback about other important roles ketchup has played in science and world history. Ditto brown sauce.
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers.his website is impossible.com.
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