What a mess. What a mess. What a mess.
Archive for the ‘Engineering and Inventions’ Category
What A Mess
Sunday, May 30th, 2010BP Technical Briefing
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Watch this. I learned a few things.
The World…
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Yikes. The World just keeps on growing…
About That Explosion in the Gulf
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Listen to this. It’s important.
Why Data Matters
Monday, April 5th, 2010Found this at the Daily Dish:
Making Steel
Thursday, September 10th, 2009theOwl
Worth a look…a United States Steel puff video – but it’s interesting, none the less.
Time Use Graph
Sunday, August 16th, 2009theOwl
Do check out this link to The American Time Use Survey’s Time Use Graph. It is interesting on several levels. First of all, it is simply technically amazing. Scroll down and play around with the Time Use Graph tool. Click in the little boxes. Pass your cursor over the graphs and read the changing text in the pop up window. Wow.
Also, it’s curious to have this graphically explicit insight as to what, say, middle aged people are doing at 10 PM verses what, say, youngish people are doing.
Even if it’s not very accurate it’s very cool. And who knows, maybe it’s accurate…
Post Updated 8.16.09
The Eagle Has Landed
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009theOwl
CBS News – Lunar Landing
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009theOwl
I remember….
Maple Whirlygig Vortex
Friday, June 12th, 2009theOwl
I saw an interesting article about maple whirlygigs at Discover…
Smoke particles illuminated with laser light around a freely flying maple seed reveal a prominent leading edge vortex. The visualization of the leading edge vortex on this and 31 other specimens of…
And here’s a “monocopter”
This is a shakedown flight for the world’s first hybrid powered monocopter. A monocopter is a flying machine with a single wing on one end and a motor on the other end. It is kind of a maple seed…