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Mechanics of Materials

Madhukar Vable, a professor at Michigan Technological University, has made his Mechanics of Materials textbook available for free online. I'm nerdy enough to find this really interesting, and I will probably look through it. Most of what I know about the subject is learned on the job, so

26 Scientific Mysteries

The New Scientist calls these things that do not make sense, but that seems too strong to me. Rather they are just parts of nature we do not understand yet. I have seen most of these before, but they are still interesting. 13 things that don't make sense

Fun Fact

Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, King of the Hill, Idiocracy, and a new movie Extract, has a physics degree from UC San Diego. Damn physicists are everywhere!

Zombie Modeling

The FSS sent me this paper modeling the spread of zombies as an infectious disease. Well, really they are using an ODE, but it is the same kind you use for infectious diseases that actually exist. The results are unsurprising to anyone who has ever seen a zombie movie, but

Science and Engineering Really Do Pay

At least among those with only a bachelor's degree. This is not particularly surprising to me, but this survey admittedly stacks the deck by looking only at people without graduate degrees, so we are talking about a subset of the college educated workforce. h/t CuriousCat Engineering Blog

Full Meridian of Glory

Full Meridian of Glory by Paul Murdin Copernicus Books 187 pages; $27.50 Paul Murdin's Full Meridian of Glory is a weighty tome. It is not particularly long, but it is very dense, both in the hand and in the mind. The book itself is beautiful heavy paper,

Sustainable Energy

There was an article in Sunday's Arizona Daily Sun [my local paper] wondering "where are all the green energy jobs?" The article said that renewable energy was hit hard by the recession, but that business was sure to pick up in year. Right. The reason there