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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Radials and cross-plies in racing

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"The higher mileage and better handling of a radial tyre does not come from a lower running temperature...Tyres are discarded when th...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Wind-tunnel nozzles and televisions

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The power consumption of a wind-tunnel cubes with the velocity, hence an efficient tunnel design keeps the velocity as low as possible in al...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Brain is Wider than the Sky: A Review

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As the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy puts it, "the concept of the aesthetic descends from the concept of taste." This book ...
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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Why Health and Safety costs lives

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The local level crossing comes down 4 minutes before a train arrives. It does this whether it's expecting an Intercity to charge through...
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

Sports psychology and neuroscience

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This week's Autosport contains a purported explanation from sports psychologist Don Macpherson, of why Sauber's cautionary radio ca...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Massey University and the nuclear test veterans

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The supreme court recently ruled that surviving veterans of the United Kingdom's nuclear test series, conducted in Australia and the Pa...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Artesian aquifers and Sauber's nose-slot

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Sauber have an interesting slot which ducts air from the underside of the nose, and discharges it behind the step on the top surface. Craig ...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Ferrari's new sidepods

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Ferrari have admitted that they need to re-design the sidepods on their 2012 Formula 1 car to take full advantage of the exhaust-blown effec...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Adrian Newey and the chromatic conditions for creativity

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"On joining McLaren in 1996, [Adrian Newey] immediately had his drawing office repainted in duck egg blue, a dramatic counterpoint to t...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Mercedes' DRS-activated F-duct

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Despite the prohibition on driver-activated aerodynamics other than the DRS, Mercedes have themselves a DRS-activated F-duct ('fluidic s...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Smallest racing car ever

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Jan Torgersen and colleagues from the Vienna University of Technology have created a racing car four times the width of a human hair . Such ...
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