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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Gordon Murray's future F1 vision

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This month's Motorsport Magazine revisits Gordon Murray's year 2000 vision for the future of Formula 1 (pictured above): a larg...
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The Great Interregnum

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A large collection of dullards have recently assembled in London, and appear to be generating more than a modicum of media attention. Normal...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Red Bull's engine maps

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Mark Hughes has a revealing explanation on the Sky F1 website of the engine map loophole exploited by Red Bull last weekend. As the regulat...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

A solution to Silverstone's parking problems?

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Following the quagmire-induced congestion at Silverstone last week, the circuit has discounted the possibility of transforming the grass ...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Aerodynamic wheel-wing interaction

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In 2007 Martinus van den Berg published a PhD thesis on the interaction between a rotating wheel and an inverted wing. The research was spo...
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Thursday, July 05, 2012

A guide to the Higgs boson for the perplexed

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Mass and the Higgs field The standard model of particle physics is an application of quantum field theory, and the latter holds that th...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Jim Holt and 'Why does the world exist?'

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Whilst this year's 'publishing sensation' appears to be Fifty Shades of Spunk , those seeking to increase the blood-flow to th...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

John Leslie, miracles, and free will

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For readers in the UK, the name of John Leslie may conjure up images of the erstwhile Blue Peter presenter with a penchant for home video pr...

Valencia retrospective

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Despite its previous association with the induction of narcolepsy, this year's European Grand Prix at Valencia provided a perfect combin...
Monday, July 02, 2012

Coffee slosh breakthrough

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Those who contend that there may be limits to human knowledge, should pay heed to recent research published in Physical Review: Walking w...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Rose-petal accumulation dynamics

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Contrary to the hypothesis suggested in the previous post, I suspect that non-aerodynamic factors are dominant in the formation of at leas...
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