Comments on: Mentos Is to Diet Coke as Coffee Filter Is to Guinness?!

By: No Self Control

No Self Control — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:40:27 +0000

Kilkenny Irish Cream Ale has the widget, too. You guys do the Guiness research, I’ll sacrifice myself by testing the Kilkenny. After all, gotta make sure it works for all the various beers.

By: Jason Blackmore

Jason Blackmore — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:17:59 +0000

What’s wrong with leaving it the way it is now?

By: KS

KS — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:20:26 +0000

. . .can might soon?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:51:58 +0000

I’ll be happy to join Glen.

By: Glen

Glen — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:49:35 +0000

I see a critical need for more data collection. I will happily sacrifice my own free time in the name of science. No thanks are necessary. Consider it a public service.

By: Georg

Georg — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:41:27 +0000

“a square with edge length 2.9 cm.”

makes about 9 square centimeters or 3 centimeters squared.

By: Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)

Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:39:30 +0000

@Oliver: In the paper the authors say they'd need a patch of fibers that was "a square with edge length 2.9 cm." You're right that that's not the size of the archetypal postage stamp, but maybe a big stamp---one of those international jobbies?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:14:00 +0000

“3cm square” isn’t really “postage-stamp sized”. Perhaps you’re thinking of “3 square cm”?

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:39:45 +0000

…

Do they have a PayPal account we can contribute our funding to?

By: Georg

Georg — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:20:11 +0000

Ils sont fous, ces Irlandais!