Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think 

He should get an Ignobel Prize in statistics.

I didn't Notice that lol.

Still sounds great!

I wonder if this birth helping wheel really works. I mean, without smashing any baby against the wall in the process.

chloupichloupa Perhaps someone should design a baby catching device to use in tandem with the birth centrifuge. No wait, in the diagram there is a net positioned between the legs of the subject. Good enough.

John Smith Oh really now ?

John Smith Main issue I see is the mother vomiting all over the place as she becomes dizzy and sick from the turning motion.

Since we're already being pedantic... The paper didn't say centripetal force, it said centrifugal force. As it happens, "centrifugal force" is a colloquial term for something that isn't actually a force, but that sure doesn't mean it's not useful. Centrifugal force is a type of what physicists refer to as "fictional" forces (not frictional), which, while not technically forces, take the place of them in equations when studying non-inertial systems, i.e. a rotating lady, or even any equation describing motion on the earth to great precision, since any laboratory on the earth is rotating, which makes it a non-inertial frame, which makes all the traditional laws of physics (Not just Newton's, Hamilton's, and Lagrange's classical formulations of mechanics but also special relativity) technically invalid (although still very good approximations.). tl;dr: Just let people use 'centrifugal' and 'centripetal' when it's obvious what they're talking about.

Perhaps you'd like to try again and improve our ability to understand you.

no one can solve that riddle. you win!

We just know that he acquired the information...he didn't say if the doctor did anything to improve the situation.

Gareth Field and kakashi...you are extremely rude. Obviously he has a difficult time with English, give him a break. And if you were coherent while watching the video and have more retention than a 3 year old, you would know which example he was asking about.

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Chetan Waghela nn 🏢

Ukrainian.

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I think you missed the point of this talk...

The bigger issue would be that to spin a table fast enough to generate enough G's to expel a baby from the birth canal would be fatal to both the woman and the child.

kakashi76767 Don't really care about his point. That invention is so stupid its not even funny.

kakashi76767 Your welcome.

kakashi76767 The talk was funny, but I don't think that was the purpose behind the invention of a spinning birth table.

Did you miss the entire point of the talk?

Dude did you even watch the whole thing?

you skipped the think part

Because clowns like you stayed home.

Shlomo Cohen Scientific innovations to help mankind? Nah, never mind.

the fun part is, they(who give the prize) actually won a noble prize and you didn't