by Matthew Cobb
Have you ever wondered why children love going round and making themselves dizzy, and what might be the effect of all that centrifugal force on their brains? If you haven’t, never fear, because Dr Nick Laslowicz has been doing that for you, as outlined in this excellent brief film from 2011 called The Centrifuge Brain Project.
I think Dr Laslowicz is a close colleague of Dr Denzil Dexter, who has a rather similar research outlook:
h/t Simon Ings
The VFX in “Centrifuge” are wonderful.
I’ll say – they looked real. I bet a few have been sucked in!
I was at first. Sneaky, sneaky, Matthew.
What VFX? That’s a straight-up documentary. I’ll never forget my own first ride on the Wedding Cake….
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I was bitten by a Wedding Snake, but that’s a different, potentially fatal situation.
I loved John Thomson in The Fast Show – the Denzil Dexter character was underrated IMO. My own dad was a big Fast Show fan, but he never saw anything of himself in the competitive dad character(my favourite) even though he’d frequently stalk off in a boiling rage if I beat him at table tennis or took up ‘his’ triple word score square in Scrabble.
Space what? (Bats? Baths? Pads?) How do I know if it’s funny?
Space bats. You bet your ass.
There’s no such thing as “centrifugal force.”
http://xkcd.com/123/
You are correct, sir, but this is a comedy piece and, if you missed that, you are the punchline 🙂
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I’m sure the resulting paper will soon be published in The The Journal of Irreproducible Results
http://www.jir.com/
The Journal of Irreproducible Results is the magazine that has stood for years as the definitive parody of scholarly and scientific journals everywhere.
This video always reminds me of bad amusement park ride stories. The worst I had heard was a friend in one of those upside down spinning rides catching someone elses’ puke in their mouth. G-forces do work wonders.
Anyone else have a bad ride story?
This one was quite bad. Stories of vomit-soakings, lost change and broken phones don’t come close.
“Gravity is a mistake.”
Now Mrs. Gnu is annoyed with me for giggling so much.
These are great fun! I couldn’t help noticing that the first video (near the end) provides a good analogy for why people grasp at religion.