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Sunday, February 26, 2012

James Le Fanu and materialism

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Rupert Sheldrake is a man who believes in telepathic dogs. As one might expect from a man who believes in telepathic dogs, he finds reason t...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Colin McGinn on consciousness

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Philosopher Colin McGinn writes an interesting discussion of consciousness in the February 20th issue of New Statesman magazine, arguing in...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Clarkson cleared by Ofcom

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Last November, Jeremy Clarkson commented on BBC TV's The One Show , that striking public sector employees should be taken out and shot i...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Front-wing side-edge vortices

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Aerodynamically speaking, a Formula 1 car is an interconnected system of vortices and vortex layers. The vorticity is created by viscous she...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Convergence

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It's been New Car Week in Formula 1, with McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull, Williams, Force India, Toro Rosso, Sauber, and Lotus, all revealin...
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Whitney

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So, another music industry star implodes to a singularity. This will provoke the habitual, systematised music-industry/media response: a for...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

"Our genres of confidence in the world are shattering!"

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Turn on to Radio 4 at a random moment during the day, and chances are that you'll alight upon one of three things: (i) a dreary, unimagi...
Saturday, February 04, 2012

Snow and horseshoe vortices

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With snow blanketing much of Western Europe at the moment, here's a chance to do some aerodynamic investigation in the field. Somewha...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

The connection between Formula 1 and Dark Energy

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Perhaps to the surprise of many aerodynamicists, one of the concepts deeply familiar to them, may actually explain the existence of dark ene...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Wastegate-blown diffusers

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Whilst the FIA have made extensive efforts to prohibit the use of exhaust-blown diffusers in Formula 1 from 2012 onwards, there appears to b...
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Friday, January 06, 2012

McLaren's floor tiles

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The BBC recently broadcast a documentary on McLaren's new supercar, the MP4-12C. In the opening minutes of the programme, we follow Ron ...
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