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Plane Crashes and Shark Attacks Still Unlikely

5. June 2009

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Plane Crashes and Shark Attacks Still Unlikely

Despite the tragic loss of 228 lives on an Air France Airbus A330 plane with 228 people on board disappeared over the Atlantic on Monday on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, air travel is still the safest mode of transport. Like shark attacks, aviation accidents make ‘good’ news.  This is a shame for [...]

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“Paper Engineering”

5. November 2008

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Madness!

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New Car Door

4. September 2008

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Concept Not more low riders! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtkoje4-…

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9/11 Impact Analysis

16. May 2008

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This about the highest fidelity visual analysis (using finite element) of the 9/11 impact - plane #1 youtube.com/watch?v=8vmIGGKvIms&f…

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30 Second Awareness Test

27. April 2008

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http://www.dothetest.c… (thx Adam!)

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Australian Petrol Prices

27. April 2008

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USA, Stop your Whining! Gas* is about $US5.75 a gallon here in Australia .. but that doesn’t stop us from buying and exporting a record number of V8s cars to the US (http://tinyurl.com/2sg7ec). I’m not suggesting that this is sustainable, just that at $Us3.50 a gallon, US residents can cope with a few more fuel price rises [...]

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