Recent content by Tyro

Hmm...laminates. You could take a PhD in that topic and still not know everything, the field is that vast. When people talk about strength, there are usually 3 primary types of 'strengths' they could be referring to - yield strength, Elastic modulus and toughness. One definition of the YS...

*Starts taking notes* :smile: How about Feynman? From what I was told by some that he is good, but at times tends to dwell too much on superfluous points. Otherwise I still have the textbooks from my A-levels (with lots of unread chapters on QM & Relativity...), like Young and Hecht...

I decided to expand my knowledge on Physics a little from what I was taught at school, which was mostly classical/Newtonian stuff. I am planning on learning both Quantum Mechanics & Relativity. Which one should I learn first, so that the knowledge from that first subject would help me learn the...

Obviously, anyone with osteoporosis can tell you that bones can be too soft. But can bones be too hard? I thought that this may be possible because part of cushioning we get when we do everything from walking to jumping, comes from the flexing/compressing of bones (however small). The rest...

Okay...my biology knowledge is very rusty, but aren't both the nerve impulse and the muscle composition the factors here? So the nerve impulse to lift a 5kg mass is less than the nerve impulse to life a 10kg one. Or for the same nerve impulse strength, a larger muscle will have an easier time...

Can any biology-savvy people comment on the viability of implants which boost the nervous signals to muscles, effectively making someone superhuman in strength and endurance? I can see how someone with these implants may end up killing themselves from over-exertion, but would something like this...

LOL. I was on a flight from Sydney to Adelaide during a holiday to Australia some time ago, and the flight attendant over the PA went something like: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard the Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth." At which point, everyone started looking around and panicking...

By the way, if I may digress slightly to the issue of sexism, I read a comment in a magazine by someone in a arcturial/statistics company that the IQ curve for men tends to be broader, while for women it tends to have a smaller standard deviation. So you get less morons for women but more...

Be wary of trying to judge various sides of a conflict based on ethics and morality. Remember that suicide bombers die thinking what they are doing is right, and that they will go to heaven. Idealistic people with an easily affronted sense of morals/ethics are the easiest for people like...

Yes. Of course. I just couldn't restrain myself from putting in my tuppence worth

What has economic sanctions, isolation policies and social/cultural exports to certain turbulent countries gotten the West? September 11, the Bali bombings, continued terrorism in Israel, religious fanaticism/extremism. Thats what. Take Israel/Palestine. Just about everyone I know says that...

Try "French military victories" instead

Conflict is the ultimate force of social evolution. It is the social analogue of biological Darwinism. As brutal as it may sound, the biological analogue weeds out the weak in favour of the strong - ruthlessly. Keep in mind that our concepts of 'ruthless' and 'brutal' is entirely arbitrary -...

I am only relaying what I read online a while ago. Please do not shoot the messenger. I note that you did not mention me explicitly, and thank you for that. However, I am just pointing that out before someone accuses me of something unpleasant. From my prose, you can quite clearly see I do...

As I understand it, these racially biased laws were implemented under the guise/logic of affirmative action; i.e. "The Malays are worse off so let's give them some economic and educational assistance." This happened after Independence when the various political parties were still trying to hold...