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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Lewis Hamilton's Garden of Forking Paths
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It's often said that there are more ways to lose a Grand Prix than to win one, and the diagram here makes that explicit. Lewis Hamilton ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
The BBC/Sky deal
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To borrow a phrase used by Jonathan Miller, television is a device for transporting the mind. Each year, the BBC voraciously consumes a reve...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Maxicons
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A Maxicon is an elementary semantical unit, in which a linguistic phrase conveys both an explicit meaning, and a second implicit sense, whi...
Lewis Hamilton and overtaking around the outside
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Discussing his efforts to fend off Mark Webber in Sunday's German Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton remarked on the BBC's post-race Forum t...
Sunday, July 24, 2011
McLaren's rear-wing vortices
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So did you spot them? The McLaren wing-tip vortices? If you watch the train of cars streaming down the pit-straight at the end of both the f...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Phone-hacking and spontaneous self-organisation
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There's something of a hullabaloo in the UK at the moment over the phone-hacking conducted by Rupert Murdoch's News International p...
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Motegi and the Fukushima radiation
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Leading MotoGP riders have declared their intention not to race in the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi this October. Their grounds for doing ...
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Silverstone and hydrodynamical singularities
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There was plenty of opportunity to watch Formula 1 cars in the wet at Silverstone last week, and it's worth noting that when a car trans...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Conclusions from Silverstone
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As a stage on which to perform, Silverstone is very much Broadway to the Red Bull School of Performing Arts. Here, the aerodynamic superiori...
Saturday, July 09, 2011
McLaren's Silverstone woes
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"Really?" said Jenson Button yesterday, quizzical eyebrow raised, when someone said Martin Whitmarsh had predicted that the new co...
Friday, July 08, 2011
Blake's Seven and the symmetry of spaceships
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What do most spaceships have in common with most animals and racing cars? That's right, they possess approximate mirror symmetry. If you...
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