Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

The Physics of Bending it Like Beckham

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Talk about facilitating incidental exposure to science. The Boston Globe explains how David Beckham is able to curl a soccer ball around an 8 man wide wall. Hat tip to Knight Science Tracker.

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After taking LSD, he was sober for a year. Then came the recurring flashbacks.

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