This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Nit-picking literature — Little things bother some people. Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace wonders why little things failed to bother Robinson Crusoe, the hero of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel, who spent 28 years documenting his plight as a castaway […]
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Radar in your shoe: The reasoning
Matt Shipman at The Abstract Blog reports on a Rube-Goldbergian invention for pedestrians: Why You Would Put A Radar In Your Shoe People rely on GPS devices to make sure they don’t get lost. But GPS devices rely on satellite connections, which are not always available…. But you can track your movements using an inertial […]