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Antonio Bardi, Florentine painter (1862-1924)
This page is dedicated to Antonio Bardi, Florentine painter (1862-1924). It was created in 1998 by his great-grandson Ugo Bardi. It is republished on the blog "Chimeras" in March 2016. The portrait...
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Ugo Bardi's Personal Home Page
Above: the cover image of Ugo Bardi's latest effort: the blog titled "The Proud Holobionts." The concept of "holobiont" was popularized first by Lynn Margulis in 1990, although it is part of the...
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CV and Personal notes
Some personal notes about Ugo Bardi Hello! I don't know how exactly you clicked your way up to this page, but in case you are interested in details about my career at the university, here are some...
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Lulù's Home Page
We set up this page in 1996 for our family 's cat, Lulu'. One day of September 2001 she walked out, never to show up again near our house. We remember her as a great hunter, over the years responsible...
View ArticleScientific Jokes by Ugo Bardi
This page contains various stories, puns and jokes chosen from those I receive from friends, in particular from Berthe Choueiry. I hope you'll enjoy them too.Letter to the EditorMeasurement techniques...
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Scaling effects in archery
By Ugo Bardi – 2000On the right: one of the smallest examples of bows. A replica of an Indian bow demonstrated by Jim Hamm, this diminutive bow (90 cm, 36") is nevertheless not a toy and can be used...
View ArticleUgo Bardi's page on Soviet Jokes
Most of us would probably agree that the old Soviet Union had a lot of defects as a political system, yet it had at least one feature to be praised: it was a source of great jokes about itself. In...
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Reverse engineering the bow - I
Reverse engineering the bow: a simple static modelCopyright by Ugo Bardi – 2000 (revised Aug 2001)This text uses a simple model, known sometimes as the Hickman model, to calculate the relation of force...
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Reverse engineering the bow: II
Reverse engineering the bow: a simple dynamic modelAbstract. This paper is the second one by the author dedicated to simple models for the physical description of bows. The first paper "a simple static...
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