Laurel, Hardy and an unforgiving staircase In 1931’s The Music Box, Laurel and Hardy famously spend hours trying to get a piano up some very steep stairs, only to be met with a horribly ungrateful recipient:
Up, up and awayThe American desert. A large catapult. A piano on fire. And wheeeeeeee! What fun… for those who are easily pleased:
Lunch timeFrightening footage from Japan, in the form of the 1977 horror film Hausu. One to bear in mind next time you sit down to have a little go at a Mozart sonata…
Science explainedSome of the world’s greatest scientific brains attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here they prove that force = mass x acceleration with the aid of a baby grand and a tall building: