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Disastrous hype
This is one of the worst press releases accompanying a study I’ve seen: The headline and the body appear to have nothing to do with the study itself, which explores the creative properties of an explosion with certain attributes. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged aerospace engineering, Big Bang, hype, mechanical engineering, supernovae, theoretical physics, thermonuclear explosions, Type 1a supernova, University of Central Florida, university press office
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Why Wonder Woman’s breastplate isn’t disappointing
The armour is not actually accompanied by the male gaze in the film, and may not even have been meant as armour at all. Continue reading
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Tagged Amazons, armour, backface deformation, batman, BDSM, biofidelity, boob plate, breastbone, breastplate, Diana Prince, female vest, force, Gal Gadot, male gaze, mechanical engineering, sternum, Superman, William Marston, Wonder Woman
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Unscientific breastplates
Wonder Woman’s armour isn’t entirely about ‘her choices’: it creates new ways to harm her because it’s trying to preserve other things. Continue reading
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Tagged Amazons, armour, backface deformation, batman, biofidelity, boob plate, breastbone, breastplate, Diana Prince, female vest, force, Gal Gadot, mechanical engineering, sternum, Superman, Wonder Woman
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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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