Reading BBC Focus (July's issue), I suddenly found out an astonishing thing about gravity. To be honest, I was really surprised, because an underlying base was not something novel to me at all, but a consequence was ( Read more... )

Adjectives describing genius and talent frequently appear when the name of Nikola Tesla comes up in a conversation. But let's think of for a second - why? What did he invent or discover so that everyone considers him as one of the most clever and ingenious human ever living on the Earth? I would like to present my own sight on this puzzle.


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A few weeks ago reading «Fundamentals of Aerodynamics» by Anderson (I strongly recommend this book for aviation geeks) I found a fascinating thing. It turns out that so-called British Gravitational System of units is commonly used in British engineering literature. That was rather surprising for me cause I thought we all use a standardized metric ( Read more... )

One day I came up with an idea to post all interesting stuff I got to know somehow. But also I thought it would be nice to post in English just for writing practice. That's why you are reading this one not in Russian despite I'm Russian. There won't be any political analytics or my dumb thoughts about things happening around the world (I'm lying, ( Read more... )