Subject: [Tweeters] penguin pooh paper from the ig nobel prizes
Date: Oct 14 12:01:12 2005
From: Liz Copeland - lizc at nwlink.com
I pass this along with the hope that you also find it amusing....
FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University
Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of
Lor?nd E?tv?s University, Hungary, for using basic principles of
physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as
detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh --
Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
PUBLISHED IN: Polar Biology, vol. 27, 2003, pp. 56-8.
http://flow.arrr.net/penguins.pdf
Liz Copeland, Bellevue WA