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I love learning facts that challenge long-held assumptions and teach me to see things in a new way. Today, I learned something which seems completely counterintuitive, which is which planets in our solar system are actually the shortest distance from another. For example, we all learned the sequence of planets, showing how far away they [...]
The Mexican Beer manufacturer Corona has found an innovative new solution to the problem of plastic packaging which holds packs of beer together. They have redesigned their beer cans so that the top and bottom have a semi-screw mechanism, allowing cans to be "locked together" and carried like a tube. Allegedly the system is strong [...]
If you think that all X-ray images can do is show you a picture of your skeleton, think again. Scientists from Mars Bioimaging at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand have developed new medical imaging technology which allows them to take pictures of the internal tissues of living beings (including humans), and show the different [...]
In the video above, Dr Derek Mueller from Veritasium takes us into the world of compliant mechanisms. What are compliant mechanisms? In mechanical engineering, compliant mechanisms are flexible mechanisms that transfer an input force and displacement at one port to an output force and displacement at another port through elastic body deformation. These may be monolithic (single-piece) or jointless [...]
Recently, I dealt with someone who really didn't like one of the pieces of research I had posted. They didn't like the idea I was recommending, for a really pedantic reason. Watch the video above to find out what it was, and how I reacted. I recently got some very negative feedback from one individual [...]
I want to wish you a very happy new year, and hope you enjoy tonight's 2019 New Year's Eve as much as I plan on it. Hopefully, 2018 has been successful for you, with lots of creative ideas, and many of those turned into real innovations. I have been thinking back on the past year, [...]
The Netherlands (some will call them Holland) is by many accounts quite a small country. With a land mass of only 41,543 km2, it is approximately the size of Maryland. And the total Dutch population of just over 17 million people is smaller than some of the world's current largest cities. And yet, this country is the [...]
Instead of being tied to a physical object in France, the international standard for the kilogram is now based on one of the fundamental constants of nature. And to achieve this, scientists have agreed to change the very definition of one of the constants of physics. You might be asking why I am talking about [...]
As much as some creative marketers would like to focus on the extent to which their work is artistry, everything they do is based on consistent principles that are only so flexible. We differ personally in many ways, but human psychology is fairly consistent across all demographics, and we can use what we know about [...]
When people think of innovation, they often think about companies that are doing things in a fundamentally new way to the current status quo. Often, these innovations need to be "better" (itself a tricky thing to define). But not only a little bit better, but substantially better. As Google famously says, they want to be [...]
