Bottlenecks. An essay prepared for the Saturday Night Literary Club, Topeka, Kansas, presented on Saturday, 11 October 2008. Submitted by Paul H. Kindling, the Gentleman from Mississippi. The bottleneck represents a paradox. The top of a container narrowed so that it can be closed and spillage prevented. It is descriptive when the cork is also called a “stopper”. The device I used to enhance, by aeration, the taste of the product of fermentation, by the way, a process discovered by the Sumerians about 12,000 years ago, demonstrates the physics of the bottleneck. Where flow through a bottle’s neck is faster the pressure is lower. The italian physicist Giovanni Batista Venturi ( d 1822) described this principle. Sometime around New Years 1930 two different strands of DNA, the building blocks of…