Bigger trucks, trains, and ships. Companies and governments are exploring heavier trucks, longer trucks, longer trains, and bigger ships.
The Wall Street Journal reports on a coalition of businesses lobbying Congress to allow heavier trucks as well as increased weights on commercial trucks:
The big rigs that cruise the nation’s roadways may .Read more...
Wired Magazine reports:
An engineer from the University of Utah has created what is possibly the world’s smallest college logo. Measuring just 70 microns across, the medallion is gold-on-silicon and was made by Randy Polson, a senior optical engineer in the Physics and Astronomy department, using lithium-beam lithography. .Read more...
The 60-mile Chinese traffic jam made headlines around the world.
What caused the traffic spectacle?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Traffic has been snarled along the outskirts of Beijing and is stretching toward the border of Inner Mongolia ever since roadwork on the Beijing-Tibet Highway started Aug. 13. The following week, .Read more...
From the TED website on Christopher C. Deam:
Looking at his work, with its clean, swooping lines and elegant economy of movement, it’s easy to guess that Christopher C. Deam is a surfer. His designs for spaces and furniture are light and clear and thoughtful, unleashed by modern materials .Read more...
The New York Times looks at the revival at Ground Zero.
The New York Times uses the Deepwater Horizon disaester to illustrate the principle of learning from engineering disaesters.
While that idea may sound paradoxical, it is widely accepted among engineers. They say grim lessons arise because the reasons for triumph in matters of technology are often arbitrary and invisible, .Read more...
