Archive for July, 2006

Engineering the Magic Bullet

Friday, July 21st, 2006

The writers for the show CSI can now start looking to real life to help think up plot lines.

Up until just recently, forensic scientists have only been able to study the two-dimensional photos of bullets and casings taken from crime scenes. This method left ample room for error, as examiners could sometimes end up [...]

Inconvenient Engineering

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Global warming has become a political crusade rather than a rational engineering policy decision. While educational and insightful, highly-publicized movies such as An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car may only serve to polarize the issue even further. In light of such movies, Robert J. Samuelson writes in the Washington Post [...]