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Spring has officially arrived in New York City and that means getting out of the apartment–at last!–and into the parks and playgrounds. This foot-long block of blue foam reflects this happy change: it’s a miniature, pop-out playground sent to us by the Rockwell Group, designers of Imagination Playground. They describe their creation as a playspace […]

In an experiment that explored the fluid physics of foam, Guinness emerged the clear winner as the beer least likely to spill when jostled.

The marvelously stabilizing power of beer foam

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