Cube-Shaped Poo and Georgia Tech's Second Ig Nobel Prize

Presented on October 8, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152.David Hu is a mechanical engineer who studies the mysteries of animal movement. His team has discovered how dogs shake dry, how insects walk on water, and how eyelashes protect the eyes from drying. Hu is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award for young scientists, two Ig Nobel Prizes in Physics, and the Pineapple Science Prize (the Ig Nobel of China). He serves on the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports, PLoS One, and The Journal of Experimental Biology.Runtime: 47:43 minutesHow does a wombat produce cube-shaped feces? How long does it take an elephant to urinate? Answering these two questions have landed David Hu two Ig Nobel Prizes, awards given at Harvard University for research that makes people laugh, and then think. Hu will talk about his lab's latest adventures catching elephant pee in trash cans, inflating wombat intestines with clown balloons, and dressing up as a gigantic piece of cubed poo at this year's Ig Nobel Ceremony