Disastrous hype
This is one of the worst press releases accompanying a study I've seen: The headline and the body appear to have nothing to do with the study itself, which explores the creative properties of an…
mechanical engineering
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Why Wonder Woman's breastplate isn't disappointing
The armour is not actually accompanied by the male gaze in the film, and may not even have been meant as armour at all.…
Unscientific breastplates
Wonder Woman's armour isn't entirely about 'her choices': it creates new ways to harm her because it's trying to preserve other things.…
The new and large fly the farthest
British Airways and Air France mutually retired the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003. Both companies cited rising maintenance costs as being the reason, which in turn were compounded by falling demand after the Paris crash in 2000 and a general downturn in civil aviation after 9/11. Now, American and…