While I was visiting the HQ of a major cycling apparel brand last year, I was able to visit their safety department. I noticed vast quantities of helmets in various states of damage laying around, which shocked me due to the value of these items alone. This got me thinking about the investment by companies …
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The Science of Superheroes: Part II
This time, it’s time to celebrate (and playfully criticise) two femme fatale powerhouses. From the Marvel side, it’s fighter pilot and space cop extraordinaire Miss Carol Danvers – Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel uses the energy of light – absorption and emission – to project powerful blasts and is also able to unleash a ‘Binary’ form …
Are electric cars really that green?
Everyone knows that burning of fossil fuels is bad for the environment, in recent years electric cars have been becoming much more popular in a global green movement. So how eco-friendly are these vehicles. While the use of an electric vehicle has practically no carbon emissions, the electricity used to power it still isn’t perfect. …
Problem of false-positive in medical tests
Misinterpreting the outcome of a medical test can be problematic. Medical testing usually have the problem of false-positive, which describes the situation of wrongly indicate a medical condition is present when it is not (which involves some basic statistics). In a medical test for whether a person has a particular disease or not, the outcome …
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Flashcards
A Beginning This semester I started trying to learn Italian, the first time I’ve somewhat-seriously attempted learning a language. My usual strategy for learning is to understand content as it’s presented and cram before assignments, tests, and exams. For most subjects I take (sciences) this work well. The most important, and difficult, part of the …
Could we deflect an asteroid
Millions of asteroids of all sizes make their way towards earth. Most of them are smaller than pebbles and disintegrate in the upper atmosphere of earth. Very occasionally a much larger asteroid will come past. For example the 10km wide rock that ended the reign of the dinosaurs. The questions becomes, if we detected a …
Gene doping: A possible future of sport
Sports have been a part of human culture for millennia, competitions are used to find out who is the best. There are many factors that contribute to how well a person can do in their chosen discipline. Top athletes will do everything they can to try reach peak performance, training for hours every day and …
Human Joints: a marvel of engineering
Despite many man made substances being developed such as Teflon (Coefficient of friction(CoF) = 0.05) and BAM (CoF: 0.02), the combination of synovial fluid and articular cartilage in synovial joints of the human body with a CoF of 0.002 is one of the closest substances to being completely frictionless. A property that is essential when …
Maths to Statistics – The Importance of Evaluating your Life Choices
A few weeks ago, I had a crisis. I was not sure what I wanted to study anymore. For years I was sure that Physics and Maths was where I wanted to be, and it took until I felt completely unsure of what I was doing that I finally sat down and thought about what …
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“Eat your carrots and you’ll be able to see in the dark”
I don’t know about you but as an 8 year old I was very disappointed to find out that even after eating 3 carrots in a row I was unable to see clearly in a pitch black room 😥 However it turns out that this fib told by parents as one of the many ploys …
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