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Jing Zhao, Sindee L. Simon, and Gregory B. McKenna, “Using 20-million-year-old amber to test the super-Arrhenius behaviour of glass-forming systems,” Nature Communications, 4, 2013, p. 1783

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“Temperature regulation and behavior,” https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Temperature_Regulation.html

Barbara Krasner-Khait, “The impact of refrigeration,” http://www.history-magazine.com/refrig.html

Simon Jol, Alex Kassianenko, Kaz Wszol, and Jan Oggel, “Issues in time and temperature abuse of refrigerated foods,” Food Safety Magazine, Dec. 2005–Jan. 2006, http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/december-2005january-2006/issues-in-time-and-temperature-abuse-of-refrigerated-foods/

Alexis C. Madrigal, “A journey into our food system’s refrigerated-warehouse archipelago,” The Atlantic, 15 July 2003, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/a-journey-into-our-food-systems-refrigerated-warehouse-archipelago/277790/


Chapter 7: Spoons, Spirals, and Sputnik

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Rachel Thomas, “How the velodrome found its form,” Plus Magazine, July 22, 2011, https://plus.maths.org/content/how-velodrome-found-its-form “Determination of the hematocrit value by centrifugation,” http://www.hettweb.com/docs/application/Application_Note_Diagnostics_Hematocrit_Determination.pdf “Astronaut training: centrifuge,” RUS Adventures, http://www.rusadventures.com/tour35.shtml

“Centrifuge,” Yu. A. Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center, http://www.gctc.su/main.php?id=131

“High-G training,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-G_training

Lisa Zyga, “The physics of pizza-tossing,” Phys.org, April 9, 2009, http://phys.org/news/2009-04-physics-pizza-tossing.html

Alison Spiegel, “Why tossing pizza dough isn’t just for show,” HuffPost Taste, March 2, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/02/toss-pizza-dough_n_6770618.html K.-C. Liu, J. Friend, and L. Yeo, “The behavior of bouncing disks and pizza tossing,” EPL (Europhysics Letters), 85 (6), 26 March 2009

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Eleanor Imster and Deborah Bird, “This date in science: launch of Sputnik,” Oct. 4, 2014, http://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-launch-of-sputnik-october-4-1957

Roger D. Launius, “Sputnik and the origins of the Space Age,” http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputorig.html

Paul E. Chevedden, The Invention of the Counterweight Trebuchet: A Study in Cultural Diffusion, Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 54, 2000, http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/dumbarton-oaks-papers/dop54/dp54ch4.pdf Riccardo Borghi, “On the tumbling toast problem,” European Journal of Physics, 33 (5), Aug. 1, 2012

R. A. J. Matthews, “Tumbling toast, Murphy’s Law and the fundamental constants,” European Journal of Physics, 16 (4), 1995, pp. 172–76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/16/4/005

“Dizziness and vertigo,” http://balanceandmobility.com/for-patients/dizziness-and-vertigo/

Steven Novella, “Why isn’t the spinning dancer dizzy?,” Neurologica, Sept. 30, 2013, http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/why-isnt-the-spinning-dancer-dizzy/





Chapter 8: When Opposites Attract


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“The chaffinch,” http://www.avibirds.com/euhtml/Chaffinch.html

Dominic Clarke, Heather Whitney, Gregory Sutton, and Daniel Robert, “Detection and learning of floral electric fields by bumblebees,” Science, 340 (6128), April 5, 2013, pp. 66–9, http:/dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1230883

Sarah A. Corbet, James Beament, and D. Eisikowitch, “Are electrostatic forces involved in pollen transfer?,” Plant, Cell and Environment 5 (2), 1982, pp. 125–9

Ed Yong, “Bees can sense the electric fields of flowers,” National Geographic “Phenomena” blog, Feb. 21, 2013,http:/lphenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/21/bees-can-sense-the-electric-fields-of-flowers/

John D. Pettigrew, “Electroreception in monotremes,” Journal of Experimental Biology, 202 (10), 1999, pp. 1447–54

U. Proske, J. E. Gregory, and A. Iggo, “Sensory receptors in monotremes,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 353 (1372), 1998, pp. 1187–98