Matin Durrani - Science Journalist

Viewing entries posted in November 2016

Furry Logic: a live doodle

Posted by Matin Durrani on 3 November 2016

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I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the launch of the book Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life at the Institute of Physics in London, where my co-author Liz Kalaugher and I spoke about some of the amazing creatures in our book. I talked about how cats drink using surface tension and how mosquitoes exploit Newton's laws to survive collisions with raindrops, while Liz discussed why loggerhead turtles can navgiate using the Earth's magnetic field and explained just why it is that the giant squid has an eye bigger than any other animal in the world.

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Spotify playlist - Furry Logic: Light

Posted by Matin Durrani on 3 November 2016

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For completeness, I've now created a Spotify playlist for some of the animals featured in the final chapter on light in the new book I've written with Liz Kalaugher called Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life.

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