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Engineering: It’s Like Math But Louder

I just found this on Adafruit, well, actually from Limor Fried on Google+.

Formulas and variables and integrals and derivatives: to the casual observer it looks like you’re doing MATH. But you’re NOT. Because when you solve for x, things EXPLODE. You’re doing ENGINEERING. Shirt created, designed and supplied by David Malki ! http://wondermark.com/

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The World’s Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine

It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption [...]

Differential gears: The Movie

A ten-minute-long 1930′s extravaganza presentation about differential gears, found courtesy of Improbable Research: BONUS: Video of a much older AND younger set of differential gears: the antikythera mechanism; and of a logo version of same.

More Robots – The Big Picture

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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/more_robots.html

Scientists, students and corporations continue their work around the world in the field of robotics, persistently improving and redefining their capabilities, interfaces and roles in society. Unmanned vehicles fly above war zones, telerobotics give humans a broader virtual presence and humanoid robots gain more parity with humans, refining their movements [...]

Environment may be why women don’t like computer science

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This was an interesting piece from the University of Washington about the environmental factors which subtract female students from Computer Science and I would suggest Engineering as well.

Joel Schwarz joels@u.washington.edu

Photo by Sapna Cheryan

Just the appearance of science fiction memorabilia, computer game boxes and junk food in [...]