Cracking Up
[lead: make newsy? or cultural ref? find subhead …] [background] There's an entire field devoted to the study of cracks and fractures in various materials; …
Mechanics
a series of tubes
[Cross-posted from our new home at Scientific American.] Imagine, if you will, a secret community dwelling beneath the streets of New York City, its inhabitants …
ticket to ride
One of my new favorite GeekGrrl blogs is The Mary Sue — a tantalizing mix of popular culture, technology, fashion, offbeat humor and weird science. …
what good is the casimir effect?
I've been culling through my bulging fodder file, discarding all those things I was sure would make for awesome blog posts, but never got around …
nothing venturi’d, nothing gained
Entropy is a harsh mistress. Three years ago, when I moved to Los Angeles, I bought the first car I'd owned in 20 years: a …
moving targets
Over at the Ptak Science Books blog — maintained by John Ptak, whose insatiable passion for cataloging historical scientific oddities makes the blog an absolutely …
nascar driver vs. wiley coyote: a real-life seriously inelastic collision
I'd like to claim that no animals were injured in the making of this blog, but (insert Joe Flaherty from SCTV doing Kirk Douglas) I'd …
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