Chin-Chan Chu of Brown University looked at localized necking as it arose in punch stressing: “An analysis of localized necking in punch stretching,”Chin-Chan Chu, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 16, Issue 10, 1980, Pages 913-31. Chu also knows a little something about fatigue and committees.
Month: July 2010
Ingenious: Sleep on Wrong Side, Get Cancer
Today’s Ingenious Theory of the Week will excite most anyone who (1) hopes that electromagnetic waves of all frequencies cause cancer and/or (2) gets into bed on the wrong side: “Sleep on the right side—Get cancer on the left?“ Örjan Hallberg and Olle Johansson, Pathophysiology, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2010, pp. 157-60. The authors, […]
The helpful roar of the cinema crowd
Noisy, chatty Indian cinema audiences extract more from their movies than audiences elsewhere. You might conclude that, if you go to an Indian cinema then read a study called The Active Audience: Spectatorship, Social Relations and the Experience of Cinema in India by Lakshmi Srinivas, published in 2002 in a journal called Media Culture and […]
Towards an ‘Unhappening Engine’
Can judicious Dirac-tickling of the local vacuum cause something to ‘unhappen’? There may be possibilities, according to the latest ‘Technical Summary’ published by the Association of Distinguished American Scientists (ADAS) which outlines the concept of an ‘Unhappening Engine’. As T. E. Bearden, President and Director of Research for ADAS explains, such an engine would centre […]