Collaborate Disseminate
Few types of accidents speak as much to the imagination as those involving nuclear fission. From the unimaginable horrors of the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to the fever-pitch …read more Continue reading Reviewing Nuclear Accidents: Separating Fact From Fiction
Despite the reputation of polymers used with FDM 3D printing like nylon, ABS, and PLA as being generally indestructible, they do come with a whole range of moisture-related issues that …read more Continue reading FDM Filament Troubles: Keeping Hygroscopic Materials From Degrading
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams of eleven, plus a few subs, who were all wrangled by a referee and a …read more Continue reading Smart Ball Technology Has Reached Football, But The Euros Show Us It’s Not Necessarily For The Better
In case you haven’t heard, about a month ago MicroPython has celebrated its 11th birthday. I was lucky that I was able to start hacking with it soon after pyboards …read more Continue reading Embedded Python: MicroPython Is Amazing
Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier …read more Continue reading Solar Dynamics Observatory: Our Solar Early Warning System
Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get …read more Continue reading A Brief History of Perpetual Motion
Although it’s often said that the era of ocean liners came to an end by the 1950s with the rise of commercial aviation, reality isn’t quite that clear-cut. Coming out …read more Continue reading The SS United States: The Most Important Ocean Liner We May Soon Lose Forever
It is funny how sometimes things you think are bad turn out to be good in retrospect. Like many of us, when I was a kid, I was fascinated by …read more Continue reading The Book That Could Have Killed Me
When I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. This same sun-and-a-handful-of-planets scheme repeated itself …read more Continue reading The Solar System is Weirder Than You Think
Lynn Conway, American engineer and computer scientist, passed away at the age of 86 from a heart condition on June 9th, at her Michigan home. Her work in the 1970s …read more Continue reading RIP Lynn Conway, Whose Work Gave Us VLSI And Much More