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Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the soul.
The William Langewiesche Aviation Reader
Marcin Wichary
The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech is already charting these new urban landscapes and frontiers. Sampling sewage for COVID-19 virus was a key source of data that helped anticipate outbreaks in many cities, weeks before clinical tests revealed a new spike. And biomedical researchers are sequencing the microbiomes within urban transit systems in dozens of cities to compare notes on local fauna.
Forecast: Wild & Well | the Future of Urban Tech
futureofurbantech.org
When they set off, one by one, first in the sprint, then the first shootout, what struck me was how quiet the cars were. This makes sense to me as someone who once studied acoustics in graduate school. Formula 1, again like sword fighting, is about an economy of motion. Noise is a hallmark of mechanical inefficiency. [[When mechanical systems work well, they work quietly. Noise at its core is excess energy.::highlight]] In Formula 1 cars, being perfect machines, that energy is redirected where it could be of use.
Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
Kate Wagner
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