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...Monkey Shines...
...solution seems obvious. As long as the monkey merely hung onto the rope, both the monkey and the equivalent weight would be at rest: the resultant of forces exerted on the rope would be zero . . . But since we have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...
...Given a monkey and an equivalent weight, one at each end of a rope running frictionless over a pulley attached to the ceiling, what would happen if the monkey tried to climb up the rope...
...news of Drive a Crooked Road is in the evidence it gives that Actor Rooney is still a skilled actor. He plays a grease monkey who drives racing cars on the side, a lovelorn little beagle who trots adoringly after the first pretty girl (Dianne Foster) who ever gave him a pat. He finds out too late-sucker's luck -that she has led him into a plot to rob a bank. Mickey drives the getaway car, but discovers at the other end of the crooked road he has taken that the girl he thought...
...Monkey and the Weight."-And his practical inventions included a plan for simplifying money orders, "a new and better rule for Lawn Tennis," a new form of backgammon, a folder for postage stamps. He was delighted to sit up "till 4 a.m., over a tempting problem sent me from New York, 'to find three equal rational-sided right-angled triangles' ... I found two . . . but could not find three...