Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YvwqMDDb3k If you’ve spent anytime going down a well used unimproved road you’ll be familiar with the washboard effect, this is a cool look as to what causes them.
https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-100-greatest-bird-names-of-all A bit of a silly one but turns out there are a lot of unique bird names and this covers some of those
https://youtu.be/0GQ2RP-25gM?is=pw6BcmNV-vNx8cfw The way computers determine things is fundamentally different than how we thing about thing, this is a look into how “AI” goes about deciding what genre music is and how it’s can be reliably fooled
https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ Internal combustion engines are an incredible feat of engineering and this page does a fantastic job breaking down all the underlying and things going into their working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM Speaking of engines, this is a cool video showing some of the dynamics inside a jet engine and how it’s able to do things such as running 250C hotter than some of the materials inside can handle when just sitting still.

Cool historical fact

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71535854/turing-speech-encryption-device/ Alan Turning is best known for cracking the Engima encryption machine in WW2, but he also worked on Delilah a voice encryption machine that was a fraction of the size of the alternatives of the day