An activity I enjoy doing in Engineering merit badge is the neutral buoyancy contest. Scouts receive a collection of wires, cork pieces, and washers and attempt to create a device that’s neutrally buoyant, failing that, one that falls the slowest. Today’s youth are quite clever but sometimes fail to grasp how the challenge works, like when [...]
I received an email from my Economics teacher about Theory of Trade. Google apparently has not much a higher opinion of this material based on their correlated ad:
As a side note, most functional Gravitational Wave Detectors would have to be both stupidly large and stupidly sensitive, which would probably greatly increase the cost of shipping. [...]
I received an email from my Economics teacher about Theory of Trade. Google apparently has not much a higher opinion of this material based on their correlated ad:
As a side note, most functional Gravitational Wave Detectors would have to be both stupidly large and stupidly sensitive, which would probably greatly increase the cost of shipping. [...]
I’ve been upstaged! On my first day back to work I expected to be showed with roses and fine chocolates as Terry, Banisher of Confusion and Bringer of Enlightenment, but no, one of my coworkers had to go and get engaged, so all today was “Hey Ter- Oh my God that’s beautiful engagement ring”. I will [...]