Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved.

For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...
The Debrief

Feynman’s Famous Physics Problem of a Sprinkler Running in Reverse has a Surprising New Solution

For decades, physicists have argued about Feynman’s Sprinkler Problem, the question of how a reverse sprinkler would operate.
Interesting Engineering

Mathematicians use children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve decades-old physics mystery

A team of mathematicians from US universities has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a ...

'Silly sprinklers' put in reverse to further unravel decades-old physics puzzle

Each summer, lawns are marked by a familiar addition: "silly sprinklers," whose loops and spirals spew water in creative ways ...

Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware

The Jscrambler client-side web security company disclosed that a threat actor published a malicious version of its npm ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

"Idempotent" may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives reverse proxies and ...

Fact Check: Vance once posted 'Black Lives Matter' and 'No human is illegal' message. It was a joke

In late June and early July 2026, a rumor spread online that U.S. Vice President JD Vance once posted online: "In this house ...
GitHub

A humble CLI for downloading and archiving podcasts.

--url String true* URL to podcast RSS feed. --file String true* Path to local RSS file. --episode-template String false Template for generating episode related filenames. See "Template Options" for ...