A LONG time ago I saw some email forwarded from the academic world: the science of Santa Claus. So there are so many households that Santa need to visit on Christmas night, so many cities to travel. The reindeers would have to fly so many miles/hour and and have so much powerful fuel and he only had so many microseconds in each household to accomplish all these feat. That article was a short reading and look semi serious.
I subscribe to "How Stuff Works: Daily Stuff Feed" from iGoogle, and today there is a full length version. I see a trend in scientific writing: the science of fictional things. I've seen book titles about the physics of Superheroes, magics of Harry Potter, and even Buffy the Vampire.
Opinion: there is NO need to investigate the science of super heroes and fictional characters such as Santa. These are fairy tales. Let fairy tales be fairy tales. Look folks, all Santa is a marketing hype to urge you to buy stuff. If these scientist read kung fu fictions are they going to analyze the energy from bone crushing techniques of the 18 Anti-dragon Palms? Scientists probably should have better things to do.
"How Stuff Works" is often a great source of information. Curious folks, especially kids should read it! (But select topics more meaningful than Santa Claus)
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