Built on Facts

For a little lagniappe to the regular daily post, here’s a few things things I thought were really cool.
The world’s largest air vortex cannon. How far away can you blow out a candle? Unless you have a jet engine handy, probably not this far.
Hrm. Carl over at Mass is working on some [...]

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In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
- James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell was of course one of the greatest physicists who ever lived.  Best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, he also contributed enormously to our [...]

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