It’s a ‘Backyard Engineering’ term, or principle I guess you’d say. It applies to many areas of human endeavor. A good example is a fence post you want to get out of the ground; you grab the post and push it as far as you can in one direction, then yank it back as fast ...
But the day that I realized how special Kate came in the spring of our freshman year. It was Kate’s birthday, and all she wanted was a hermit crab (I have no idea why). We had planned to take her to Ocean Beach for the day to go around, look in the shops, get our feet in ...
ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Boiler pressure power piping code B31.3 is a code that is often used in connection with the term ASME, the maximum pressure safely allowable can be calculated using this code. Try thiscalculator to determine the maximum allowable piping pressure....
There are only two choices that can be made in a presidential election in which the incumbent runs for another term: 1) to affirm the county’s choice made four years prior by continuing the county’s current trajectory or, 2) to repudiate the choice made four years ago and move the cou...
s North American passenger cars. Moray served a respectable term at Mazda too, playing a prominent role in the brand’s early 21st-century revitalization. Ian is the current design director at Jaguar; his partnership with Peter Stevens and Tom Walkinshaw in TWR Design (for which he left Ford...
If girls dance or go shopping with high heels for a long period of time, their feet may have to endure a lot of fatigue and pain. Then what they might want most is to be able to change their shoes into a pair of flat shoes or sports shoes. Now it may be easy do so. ...
“Alas, if the waves are clean, I’ll wash my balding hair. Alas if the waves are dirty, I’ll wash my feet!” Thus the fisherman left and did not return, no longer caring for anymore conversation. Cannot be translated as “father”. It is a common honorific term of address to an...
for the foil to get to its foiling speed. Once there it flies itself (and us) and the wing is only really needed once you feel it falling below its foiling speed again. Mentally you have to make the connection with something you don’t even see: it is under your feet and into the...
Wet and flat, nary a hill in sight. Our air bnb was in a beautiful house owned by a family named Starbuck. They used to hunt whales on Nantucket. We walked all over the place and had poke bowls near the house. This city of 150,000 people has been abandoned to the short-term ...
If you have good decision-making skills, they will help you have improved thinking and the best emotional reactions. When people know their habits and thoughts, they can easily distinguish between short-term and long-term goals. Being self-aware of yourself will help you make better decisions ...