Forget speed-dating and the classifieds column – now you can leave it to your beer mat to make that all-important first move. Beer mats have always provided endless entertainment in the bar and now a ...

Anyone who has ever failed to throw a beer mat into a hat should take note: physicists at the University of Bonn have discovered why this task is so difficult. However, their study also suggests how ...

Whilst modelling the forces acting upon a thrown beer mat, physicists discover why flat discs have such poor flight potential. Newswise — The question ‘Why do beer mats make bad frisbees?’ may ...

Beer mats are close to the hearts of many readers of the Physics arXiv Blog. So the challenge of trying to make beer mats fly will be familiar. As will the problem this causes. Propelling them — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ian Goodship (l), his father Pete and Allan Hall are all involved in the Man Time group in Stone [BBC] A charity has distributed ...

Many a pub crawler has engaged in the time-honored tradition of throwing beer mats—those round cardboard coasters that are ubiquitous in bars—as if the mats were frisbees, often competing to see who ...

I work at the Dark Star brewery and this year we made some mosaic style beer mats. Each one is part of a puzzle. Much to our surprise, we were awarded the title of beer mat of the year by the British ...

Anyone who has ever failed to throw a beer mat into a hat should take note: physicists have discovered why this task is so difficult. However, their study also suggests how to significantly increase ...