Press
Here are a few of the places my work and I have appeared.
Quick jumps: Newspapers and Magazines | Radio and Podcasts | Video | Websites and Blogs
Newspapers and Magazines
- Associated Press – 100 years ago in Boston: The day molasses was deadly fast
- Associated Press – Slow as molasses? Sweet but deadly 1919 disaster explained
- Corvallis Gazette-Times – Library science videos do a deep dive on pressure
- Corvallis Gazette-Times – Video: Diving deep for pressure
- Der Spiegel – Der süße Brei
- New Scientist – Incredible physics behind the deadly 1919 Boston Molasses Flood
- Physics World – Weblife
- The New York Times – Solving the mystery behind the deadly ‘tsunami of molasses’ of 1919
Radio and Podcasts
- ACS Orbitals – Episode 28: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Nightlife – This Week in History: The Boston Molasses Flood
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation – The Science Show – Fluid dynamics – a part of everyday life
- Brains On! – Moment of Um, How do flu vaccines work?
- Historium Unearthia – Episode 20: A Great Molasses Flood Swept Through Boston in 1919
- Improbable Research – Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid?
- Improbable Research – Fold when wet, if naked underwater
- Improbable Research – How much saliva does a five-year-old kid produce?
- Improbable Research – Leaping fish injuries and the trauma center
- Improbable Research – Smelly people in the office
- Improbable Research – Standardized food glops
- Improbable Research – Stress analysis of a strapless evening gown
- Improbable Research – The attempt to automatically recognize boredom
- Improbable Research – The real-life Wizard of Oz
- Improbable Research – Walking on feet in the city
- Improbable Research – Where do messes come from?
- Improbable Research – You Bastard
- Physics World – “Could Humans Run on Water?”
- Radio 3 Scienza – Evviva l’errore! – 1 (~29 min. mark)
- Radio New Zealand – Nights – The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
- Science Friday – A Salute to Head-Scratching Science
- Science Friday – Celebrating Science With Silliness: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
- Science Friday – From Cat Rheology to Operatic Incompetence
- Science Friday – Science Awards of the Sillier Sort
- Science! With Friends – #36 Nicole Sharp: She Got Flow
- Stationery Orbit – Episode 22 – Learning about fountain pen fluid dynamics from Nicole Sharp
- The Mesh Up – Episode 4: Rough Around the Edges
Video
9News Denver
Improbable Research
Physics Girl
Websites and Blogs
- 9News Denver – 6 Colorado women featured in exhibit at Smithsonian
- BoingBoing – How to: Turn water instantly into snow
- BoingBoing – It’s not a horror movie, it’s physics
- BoingBoing – Supersonic airflow in a rocket nozzle
- Business Insider – How a 7-meter wave of sticky molasses may have killed 21 people in 1919
- Business Insider – Physics of the curve ball
- Business Insider – Watch how particles in the air swirl around the globe
- Cornell Engineering – Nicole Sharp ’09, Celebrated Science Communicator – Not Your Typical Post-Ph.D. Path
- Gizmodo – A match being lit like you’ve never seen before
- Gizmodo – Disgusting fish slime is an amazingly versatile material
- Gizmodo – Even simple convection can look beautiful
- Gizmodo – Math has never looked as pretty as this
- Gizmodo – Ponder the physics of chocolate fountains during your New Year’s revels
- Gizmodo – Researchers dig into Boston’s mysterious ‘tsunami of molasses’
- Gizmodo – Slow-mo video reveals raindrops on sand behave like asteroid impacts
- Gizmodo – The Brazil nut effect is more complicated than you think
- Gizmodo – The science inside your blender
- Gizmodo – This disgusting pink plume could help us clean up oil spills
- Gizmodo – This is how astronauts can now drink liquids in space
- Gizmodo – This is how to test a supersonic car in a wind tunnel
- Gizmodo – This is what happens when you combine ferrofluids and glowsticks
- Gizmodo – This is what happens when you ignite methane with a laser
- Gizmodo – Watch what happens to this drop of water when it hits hot oil
- Gizmodo – Watching blood dry is surprisingly interesting
- Gizmodo – We can’t stop watching this video of flowing sand art
- Gizmodo – Why didn’t high school science look this beautiful?
- History Channel – Why the Great Molasses Flood was so deadly
- Improbable Research – A man, his oobleck, and his hydraulic press
- Improbable Research – A sharp look at Iggy fluid dynamics
- Improbable Research – Dr. Nicole Sharp (FYFD) is now officially statuesque
- Improbable Research – New research on the fluid dynamics of the Boston Molasses Flood
- Improbable Research – Sheep are a fluid (as will be explained tonight in Washington)
- io9 – A beautiful reminder that physics is everywhere, even in soap
- io9 – A giant, fiery mustache makes this already awesome photo that much awesomer
- io9 – A Lego pirate is sacrificed to a colossal wave in the name of science
- io9 – A simple but elegant demonstration of fluid density
- io9 – Behold, the bizarre physics of the “Gobbling Drop”
- io9 – Can you guess the subject of this photo?
- io9 – Can you guess the subject of this photograph?
- io9 – Can you guess what this is an image of?
- io9 – Few things are as captivating as ink billowing through water in slow-mo
- io9 – Gravity-defying fluids are the most mind-blowing thing you’ve seen all week
- io9 – Have you ever seen a soap bubble bounce?
- io9 – Here’s a beautiful fluid dynamics experiment that begins in your shower
- io9 – Here’s what happens when you throw water into hot oil
- io9 – High speed video reveals the bizarre physics of an ordinary water droplet
- io9 – High-speed video reveals the surprising beauty of moth flight
- io9 – High-speed videography reveals the beauty of dove flight
- io9 – How to model a white hole in your sink
- io9 – How to walk on water
- io9 – The physics of fire, gasoline, and sheer unbridled idiocy
- io9 – The physics of fluid, revealed in spellbinding color
- io9 – The science of amber waves of grain
- io9 – These slow-motion videos of fluids vibrating on speakers are wonderful
- io9 – This amazing video reveals the physics of skipping rocks
- io9 – This perpetual beer machine is fake, BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE CAN’T DREAM
- io9 – Time-lapse footage of April’s Calbuco eruption is otherworldly
- io9 – Watch ten years’ of global weather unfold in just three minutes
- io9 – Watch this drop of water have an orgasm
- io9 – We could watch this bouncing water droplet all day long
- io9 – What do supernovae and salad dressing have in common?
- io9 – What the hell is going on with these balls?
- io9 – Your afternoon catharsis: liquid droplets coalescing in slow motion
- io9 – Your guide to one of the coolest physics demonstrations of all time
- io9 – Your new desktop background: Supersonic wind tunnel edition
- Mashable – 10 Must-Follow Tumblrs for Science Lovers
- National Geographic – Curiously Krulwich – Help! I’m trapped in a drop of water
- National Geographic – National Geographic News – Natural lube powers one of the world’s fastest fish
- National Geographic – Not Exactly Rocket Science – I’ve got your missing links right here (15 June 2013)
- National Geographic – Not Exactly Rocket Science – I’ve got your missing links right here (16 November 2013)
- Neatorama – Photography of liquid droplet collisions
- Neatorama – Physics of water balloons
- Popular Mechanics – Even a soda bottle rocket can do one of a fighter jet’s coolest tricks
- Popular Science – McDonalds’ fancy new straw doesn’t suck
- Science – Going with the flow
- Smithsonian Magazine – The sticky science behind the deadly Boston molasses disaster
- Txchnologist – Rock it: Speaker helps control rocket engine blast
- With a Science Degree – Nicole Sharp, PhD
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