Stumbling upon a novel idea, even if it's not exactly new, is always exciting. Came across this virtual rolling contact joint when researching spherical rolling joints. Created by IRIM LAB KOREATECH & genius in its simplicity, this joint consists of three pivoting linkages that

A dead trout placed in a vortex wake swims upstream without muscle movement, and it won the 2024 IG Nobel Physics Prize. The fish’s flexible body resonates with swirling water patterns, passively extracting energy. Live trout use the same trick, reducing muscle effort by ~50%.

If you're posting outrage porn from either side of the aisle you are unfortunately a useful idiot and contributing to the rift being engineered in the American population to destroy us from the inside.

Cant wait for joby, archer to set up terminals in suburbs. Will help real estate prices. Commuter train stations for the sky

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in

Bro really changed the game with this one 👀

I am not even a sports fan, but I recognize a transcendent moment when I see it. If you look like this when the entire world is watching your final exam, well, that's one for the ages. I'm glad that I was there to see it.

I’m desperately trying to start and fund Trade School 2.0 please DM me if you’re that cracked founder

This guy built his own ultralight plane and takes it out for a flight. Under ultralight rules, you don’t need a pilot’s license to fly one.

I'm sure you've seen telescopic cylinders before on excavators, dump trucks, cranes, or forklifts, but have you ever wondered how they actually work? First thing to realize is there are 2 different types: single acting & double acting. 1) Single acting cylinders (pic 2) are

It worked! DART successfully shifted the orbit of not one, but two asteroids around the Sun after Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft in 2021 → nasa.gov/missions/dart/…

I’m not a structures man but this shit makes me happy, really activates my neurons

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:

just learned that a mentor, Dennis Bushnell, the longest serving Chief Scientist at NASA (Chief for 28 years) died. in his remembrance I wanna share one of his only public presentations, which might be the greatest NASA slide decks of all time (circa 2001) alachuacounty.us/Depts/epd/EPAC…

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This was New York City on Good Friday in 1956

All this talk of a moon base, while the surface looks like a battlefield. Anyone consider how we build here while it’s raining meteorites daily

Kanye stole his entire stage design from John Martin's 1823 Paradise Lost illustration "Satan Presiding At The Infernal Council"