by David Brooks | May 19, 2016 | Blog
If you’re psyched by “deep drawing, hydroforming, and electromagnetic forming” processes, or finite element analysis modeling or “biaxial tensile testing equipment and portable and non-contact strain measurements using digital imaging...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2016 | Blog
Wired has a great story about the difficulty of engineering good tires for electric cars, a subject I’d never thought of. Great-handling tires don’t last. Durable tires are loud. Quiet tires can’t handle. The rubber wrapped around the wheels on every new car is...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2016 | Blog
New Hampshire’s deer population is still free of a form of mad cow disease that once seemed likely to arrive here, having moved as close as New York state, but to keep us safe the state is asking hunters to give up something useful: Urine-based lures. “While it is...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2016 | Blog
My favorite news stories are those that use a news hook – something that requires a story right now – to explain the workings behind everyday objects or processes we don’t think about much. How does a culvert work? Why do we drive on the right side...
by David Brooks | May 17, 2016 | Blog
My Monitor column today is spurred by ongoing issues with drinking water pollution via chemicals that are measured down to parts per trillion. Trillion! For crying out loud! It gives me an excuse to provide my favorite way to think of wicked large numbers, via time: A...
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