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Cognitive flexibility and nationalism 2.0
Remember that paper about cognitive flexibility and nationalism? The one that said people who are more nationalistic in their politics tend to have lower cognitive flexibility? I’d blogged about it here. I hadn’t read the study’s paper, published in the Proceedings of the … Continue reading
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Tagged behavioural psychology, Brexit, causation, cognitive flexibility, correlation, nationalism, neuroscience, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, right-wing fundamentalism, The Guardian
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The new and large fly the farthest
British Airways and Air France mutually retired the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003. Both companies cited rising maintenance costs as being the reason, which in turn were compounded by falling demand after the Paris crash in 2000 and a general downturn in civil aviation after 9/11. Now, American and French scientists have found that Concorde was in fact an allometric outlier that stood out design-wise at the cost of its feasibility and, presumably, its maintenance. Continue reading
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Tagged aerodynamics, allometry, aviation, commercial airplanes, Concorde, constructal laws, correlation, mechanical engineering
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