Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh- Calculations on Avian Defaecation

TL;DR — Two scientists calculate how hard a penguin has to push to project its droppings away from the nest. Won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Fluid Dynamics.

How much weight it carries: A real three-page paper in Polar Biology, written with a straight face.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

3 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.