August 2013 at Flying Circus of Physics

The August stories at the main FCP site: (1) Death by bunk bed. (2) Can you hide your shadow? (3) A long chain siphons itself out of a container and mysteriously rises into the air on its own. (4) Pub trick of sticking a beverage can to your hand so firmly that you can pour out its contents by tilting your hand.

July 2013 stories at The Flying Circus of Physics

The July stories at the main FCP site: (1) the impossible stairwell, where you walk up the stairs in order to reach the bottom, (2) Groucho walking and running, and the duck walk of Chuck Berry, (3) a platypus hunts by detecting the tiny electrical signals of the nerve impulses of the shrimp it startles into motion, (4) pub trick of the month: a bridge of coins extending off a table’s edge and then back again.

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