Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
We'll let James Dacey of physicsworld.com explain this miracle: "It was whilst writing a story this afternoon about water-repellency in lotus leaves that I noticed something very strange. Bizarrely, everybody’s favorite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images of water-droplets being ejected from the leaf surface." It looks more like...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The face of Ringo Starr has been seen in a droplet of water bouncing on a lotus leaf. No come back, this is Turin shroud stuff...allegedly. A team researching water-repellent leaf behaviour at Duke University in North Carolina took high-speed images, showing water drops bouncing on the surface of a leaf. James Dacey, a reporter for Physics World, wrote the story up for the magazine’s...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
RESEARCHERS at Duke University, North Carolina, have spotted Ringo Starr’s face into water droplets hitting a leaf. James Dacey, a reporter for Physics World, writes: “Bizarrely, everybody’s favourite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images of water-droplets being ejected from the leaf surface.” Good news for those of you who wanted to see Ringo...
