“The face of the Beatles' drummer, Ringo Starr, has been seen in a droplet of water bouncing on a lotus leaf,” Tom Chivers reports for The Daily Telegraph. "A team researching water-repellant leaf behaviour at Duke University in North Carolina took the high-speed images, showing water drops bouncing on the surface of a leaf." James Dacey, a reporter for Physics World, describes the so-called Starkey Effect: “Bizarrely, everybody's favourite mop-topped Liverpudlian seems to reveal himself in the high-speed photo images.” Mr. Starr's features can indeed be seen in the images, although they distort as the droplet bounces.
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