two counter-rotating vortices

On Sunday morning, once your girlfriend

is done with the mixing of the mousse au chocolat

you can use her mixer

and a recipient

and some tap water

to verify that you can get just two counter rotating vortices without any supplementary ones.

Saran crack

Poiseuille flow! Clearly established with link and addition to Wikipedia (fr; damn, how dare they display IPs? Fleury thinks that’s illegal ). And without need to have a sandwich with a top Extra-cellular membrane (which probably don’t exist and would make a first point for a corrigendum to ask for EPMAG).

I’ve being contacted

Just learned by Enro’s comment that I was contacted before the writing of this post! Well, Tom Roud wrote me on Oct 21, 2007 to point that he just learned about the shutdown of Fleury’s website on my blog and ask if I knew more about it.
Then we exchanged three other messages.

scientists on the Net

In “a must read” I pointed to a collective work by three french science bloggers discussing about the freedom of expression of french scientists in the Net. The starting point was the shutdown of Vincent Fleury’s website previously harbored by The University of Rennes 1 server, under the editorial responsibility of the UMR 6626 head [...]

L2/R2, could they be nonsensical?

As this is maybe a first point of agreement between Fleury and myself I promised to make of it a post.
In a recent comment he wrote:

Got mail

By Fleury.

worst biologist evah

Following Fleury’s appreciation i’m a bad bad biologist, the worst he ever met, and probably vortex-blind, unable to see vortices where there are vortices.
In response to my request to point exactly at L2/R2 in his paper, he pointed to fig 6 of EPMAG supposedly depicting the four vortices. (vertically repositioned fig6 at [...]

An Elasto-Plastic Model of Avian Gastrulation #2

One of the assumptions made in the paper, is that tensile stress is accumulated at the level of the extra-cellular matrix due to cells’ movements.
There is no evidence about that. To avoid any comments starting by “it is well known…”, below the fold the schematic representation of filopodia driven cell movements that don’t induce permanent [...]

An Elasto-Plastic Model of Avian Gastrulation #1

An Elasto-Plastic Model of Avian Gastrulation
Vincent Fleury
Organogenesis 2:1, 6-16, January/February/March 2005

Pathological intellectual honesty

Somebody, recently, said I was affected by “pathological intellectual honesty”. I wouldn’t consider intellectual honesty as a pathological pathological trait of character; I don’t even want to comment about what kind of people could consider intellectual honesty as a pathological state. [even with poor language skills in French it's easy to find the [...]