Links. Links. Photos (Week 2024.14)
Links of the Week
A History of Supersonic Flight. Very good. Interesting how all countries involved were doing it for some notion of national greatness, but both the US and the UK “saw little prestige in commercial failure” while France cared less about that.
There is a British Dennis, the Menace and an American one, which debuted on the same day, and that seems to have been a coincidence!
A crisis in the Central African Republic.
“Contrary to popular belief, [woodpeckers] don’t have shock absorbers in their heads” What is most interesting is that the imagined shock absorbers have been used as an insipiration in the design of new shock-absorbing materials and helmets.
Day job links
I’m holding open office hours this month and early May.
Our lab’s update newsletter for March 2024 is out