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They Started As Cheerleaders

January 24, 2008 12:32pm

Another strange thing is the wide variation in detail given in the caption of each one; so it's "Jamie Lee Curtis" vs. "Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president, was a cheerleader during his high school years in Abilene, Kansas."

Gomboc: World's First Self-Righting Object

December 10, 2007 3:16pm

Please please please note the distinction between an equilibrium and a "stable point". Both a Weeble and a gomboc have two equilibria, one of which is stable and the other is unstable. The unstable equilibrium is the one on which the object "could, theoretically, be balanced;" the fact that it moves to the other point if it's perturbed even slightly from the unstable point is what makes it unstable.

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