Cornflour Monsters
I made this!
You may have seen videos of a cornflour/water mixture in a speaker, making all sorts of strange shapes...
We tried it for ourselves, in both normal and high speed footage, and think we've worked out the science behind it...
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TheAlmightyBeev, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:19,
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That's a bit woo, that is :)
But be careful, I've heard rumours that Kerry Katona was the result of a cornflour and bacterium experiment.
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Monty Propps, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:26,
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We keep our equipment clean...
how's tricks Monty?
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TheAlmightyBeev, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:28,
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Good, actually
We met, and interviewed, Katherine Ryan (Nivea Funny Woman award winner) - she's had her genome profiled as part of C4's 'Routes'. We later got Steve Jones to talk us through the ins and outs of profiling and it made a nice package for the show (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/show/2009.03.01/).
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TheAlmightyBeev, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:41,
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Oooh, could you somehow get me in touch with anyone doing genome research?
The reason being that I think it would be beneficial to society to map the genome of someone as good looking and intelligent as me; sort of tracing the pinnacle of human evolution, if you will.
(Sod it, I'm just curious and wanna give it a go on the cheap)
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That would be great if it
was the music-matching screen saver that RealPlayer has, rather than the psychedelic patterns they use currently.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:32,
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I love this stuff.
There is a redundant bass amp in my spare room- I wonder how much trouble I will get in if I try it out?!
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t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:32,
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We've sprayed that one with non-stick silicon stuff
I think a non-treated speaker may not fare so well...
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TheAlmightyBeev, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:42,
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You're the man!
After seeing this on /links a few weeks ago I was hoping to find a good explanation :D
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applehead herp derp, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:45,
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