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I’m feeling abit geeky today. Monday blues. So bear with me.

Today’s post will be interesting. Or Boring. Depends on how you look at it.

I found something here. Its a site called collision detection.

Stability of Four Legged Tables

Its amazing that people actually analyze the stability of FOUR LEGGED TABLES.

André Martin, a physicist actually proved the theory that IF you rotate a round table long enough, you can actually produce STABILITY.

There’s plenty of assumptions that he made actually.

1. Table must be round
2. All legs must be of same length
3. and many others that I do not think i should bore you with.

If you are interested, you can download the whole proof here(PDF here. Please Right Click and Save Target As).

My thoughts

I read the pdf. I am engineering trained. I mean…

I mean I have been through the maths and physics.

I mean I dont really get it. What the….

But I applaud this guy his researching spirit. Should I interview him? What are your views? Please drop your comments. I would love to hear from you.

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Are YOU someone who has been very curious since young? Or are YOU someone who likes to experiment things?

Well, you can say I am pretty bored or something, but I am just curious. So I went to GoogleTrends and conducted a very interesting experiment.

What did I do

Basically, I wanted to investigate the trends between coffee table and coffee tables. I wanted to find out whether there are differences or not. So here is the results.

Results and Conclusion

As you can see, more people search for coffee table, then for coffee tables. It appears that google actually interprets singular and plural terms differently. This is not the only thing that fascinates me. Let’s take a look at the next observation.

You might have noticed something else. There are more people from the UK than from the US searching for “coffee tables” rather than “coffee table”. Do you have an idea why?

I am very puzzled and curious to find out actually. Maybe some coffee table guru could enlighten please? Comments are welcomed!

P.S. - For the curious lot, you might want to VERIFY it yourself here!

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