This is the first post in a series of engineering topics for non-engineers that I plan to write. This topic is Kinetic Energy, and is likely the most relevant to things we
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This is the first post in a series of engineering topics for non-engineers that I plan to write. This topic is Kinetic Energy, and is likely the most relevant to things we
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For geeks mainly. Skip over this if you don’t want to read about this nerd stuff. And it’s long, which is apropos for the topic. I feel like Homer Simpson and Clown
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Editor’s Note: We present an article by our good friend, Boris. He is a long-time friend and member of our group, but this is his first article for MOTW. We look forward
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A big pet peeve of mine is this idea that if something makes sense to you then it is therefore true. It’s something I call Plausible Realibility. It’s when one thinks that
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Logic. Most people assume they understand logic and reasoning. They don’t. What they are good at is rationalization and fallacies, but believe themselves to be Titans of Logic, instead of the clowns
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Newt Gingrich worries about the night the lights go out in Georgia: Within a year, nine out of 10 Americans could be dead.* And whatever causes the national apocalypse—be it North Korean
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then we have a controversial new theory concerning the Shroud of Turin: As [Thomas] de Wesselow is quick to admit, this idea is only a hypothesis. No one has tested whether a
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