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How Winners Work: The Great HowStuffWorks Contest of ’11
by Josh Clark | December 9, 2011
First, let me say they made me write this. They being the marketing department, the people who make others write about themselves in blog posts about contests that the writer figures into as a prize. Would it be too unsettling to write about myself in third person instead? Let me try that.
In the following article, a really interesting question is explored. The question is: Is there a better, more efficient way to launch airplanes? Electric Aviation is the Future of Transport If you think about how airplanes take off now, you can see the potential problem. The pilot positions the plane at the end of the [...]
There is a huge uproar right now about the new full body scanners being deployed in airports around the United States. There are people loudly claiming that the TSA is handcuffing them to chairs for refusing to be scanned… TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket… …and TSA [...]
Imagine an airplane design so radical that it gets 50% to 70% better fuel economy than today’s passenger jets. Now imagine that this airplane could be made with standard tube-and-wing assembly lines and fit into standard airport gates and runways. That is what MIT is proposing…
Given today’s terrorism climate, there really isn’t any room left for joking about murder or bombs. And if you do try to make a joke, it can seriously backfire, as can be seen in this recent example…
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