Saturday, February 2, 2013

Further Advances in Marmotology

[In celebration of this joyous festival, Groundhog Day, we repost this, from 2010:]


[In accord with the sudden frenzy of interest in humble woodchucks on the World Wide Web -- the epicenter of which, oddly, would appear to be located in the southern Ukraine -- we are posting this urgent bulletin.  Please tweet this to everyone you've ever met, or might meet someday in the future, or in the after-life.]

Top-flight scientists making highly precise measurements have found an answer to the age-old question.   And the answer is:

If (counterfactual assumption) a woodchuck could chuck wood, then (apodosis) it would chuck:  a peck.


(NSF grant #Ops2B-911-6600.)

[ Update:  For more, like, really smart science-y stuff, check this out.]

[ For a swell sonnet about the Humble Woodchuck, click here. ]

And if (for some unfathomable reason) you personally don't actually like woodchucks, 
the following video is guaranteed  Woodchuck-Free:


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