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Poisson's ratio & Auxetic video

Poissons's Ratio (ν),  the ratio, when a sample object is stretched, of the contraction or transverse strain (perpendicular to the applied load), to the extension or axial strain (in the direction of the applied load). When a material is compressed in one direction, it usually tends to expand in the other two directions perpendicular to the direction of compression. This phenomenon is called the Poisson effect. Poisson's ratio is a measure of the Poisson effect. The Poisson ratio is the ratio of the fraction (or percent) of expansion divided by the fraction (or percent) of compression, for small values of these changes. Conversely, if the material is stretched rather than compressed, it usually tends to contract in the directions transverse to the direction of stretching. Again, the Poisson ratio will be the ratio of relative contraction to relative stretching, and will have the same value as above. In certain rare cases, a material will actually shrink in the transverse direction when compressed (or expand when stretched) which will yield a negative value of the Poisson ratio. The Poisson's ratio of a stable, isotropic, linear elastic material cannot be less than −1.0 nor greater than 0.5 due to the requirement that Young's Modulus, the shear modulus and bulk modulus have positive values.

However some materials have a negative Poisson's ratio effect. these materials are known as auxetics like in this video
 

the venus project

I guess thats interesting

perception

It is said that perception is the highest level of activity. "One aught to conceive of perceptible forms embodied in physical objects as forces directed towards the awareness of form". The awareness of the perceiver is the only way in which perceptible form achieves it's highest level of actuality. What is it that makes anything that can be perceived accomplish the perception of what it is? How does something of nature be perceived as something of nature and how does something of architecture be perceived as something made by man? As young children we begin to develop an ability to differentiate nature from something we as humans have build/created. I want to explore this ability to not only set the two of nature and architecture apart from one another but our human ability to perceive. Janine Benyus has a talk on TED about biomimicry where she states, "we are surrounded by genius". Things that are living in nature have been creators for much longer than we have and also much better. She gives a great example of perception when she talks about a boy who made the assumption that a wasps nest was made by us. Perception in training. 
   Sensible form is a real force towards perceiving . This is why the perceiving must occur in the senses of the perceiver, but the perceiving itself is the highest realization of sensible form. Sensible form by definition would be the organization of the matter of the perceptible object. This form would be translated to the sense organ.
plato says, in the theory of forms that "Forms are the only true objects of study that can provide us with genuine knowledge"
  On every account I can think of where I have learned something from anything other than  that of something with form I now think, Is all this not considered "genuine knowledge"?

 More to come on this subject...

Who said this one?

My definition of friendship varies with the friend, but certain traits are mandatory.  Friends can occupy the same room without robbing the space of solitude.  They appreciate the difference between conversation and pointless noise.  They don't snipe and bitch about other friends.  They do their share of the mundane tasks without prompting.  They seldom whine, are secure in their own purpose and don't anchor themselves to an energy-sapping cloud of defeat and ready-made excuses when a challenging project presents itself.

scale of the universe

I think I don't know everything anymore.

http://www.scaleoftheuniverse.com/

You can't say I didn't warn you

Friends and family. I am sorry to say I was trying to start a blog here to encourage myself to explore the knowledge attainable of this world. I would share it to hold myself accountable on at least a someone regular basis but today is the day I think it is over. Through search I somehow have stumbled on a dead end. This guy, he knows everything and I was skeptical so I watched it and... oops he shared it with me and now I technically don't "dabble in knowledge" but I know everything too. I want to let you know before you watch this that knowing everything is scary. You can leave this page now and continue your journey of life in the direction it is going, or you can listen to this guy and get on my side of the table. Their is no going back. If you wonder and enjoy wondering than I would suggest GTFO (leave). How do  you know I am not lying? Well if you believe that nobody knows everything than that is probably because if you find this video on youtube you will see that it has been viewed less than 200 times. So realistically that amount of people know everything thus making it highly unlikely that you have met one of the people who viewed it. That is until now. You met me and I am sharing (with extreme caution) this otherwise unexplainable amount of knowledge. Have you ever had to upload maybe a big picture or a program to you mothers old computer. Yeah thats a partial reason for the warning too. Anyway, from here it is at you own risk which way you choose to go. Let me know if you make it to my side.

The Antikythera Mechanism

It is believed that this instrument was a kind of mechanical analog computer used to calculate the movements of stars and planets in astronomy. At the beginning of the 20th century, divers off the island of Antikythera came across this clocklike mechanism, which is thought to be at least 2,000 years old, in the wreckage of a cargo ship. The ship was Roman though the antikythera mechanism was developed in Greece.  One theory suggests that the reason it came to be on the Roman ship could be because the instrument was among the spoils of war garnered by then Roman emperor Julius Caesar. Any way you can read more here

POIS

Never knew it existed but I feel for this guy.

weird featherless chicken

An Israeli geneticist, Avigdor Cahaner, created the world’s first featherless chicken at the genetics faculty at the Rehovot Agronomy Institute near Tel Aviv, Israel. The bare-skinned bird was created by cross breeding a broiler with a species that has a featherless neck.

The idea behind the development of this naked bird is that it will create a more ‘convenient’ and energy efficient chicken which can live in warm countries where feathered chickens don’t do well and cooling systems are too expensive to be commonly affordable. And of course, the bird doesn’t require plucking, saving additional money in processing plants.

On a serious note I would like to hear responses from people. If you haven't seen this video it starts out about the holocaust(ethical)and makes an argument/comparison to abortion. Make sure you have about a half hour to watch this. It may be on the political side but as far as your comments I would like to hear a more ethical, religious, philosophical or psychological perspectives.

definitions

VFX

Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 2 from Brainstorm Digital on Vimeo.

superconductors?

Cobbling

cobblingpresent participle of cob·ble (Verb)

Verb	Repair (shoes). 2. Roughly assemble or put together something from available parts

Which makes me wonder about cobbler (the food). Anyway a cobbler is separate from a shoe manufacturer like the one in the Luis Vuitton video the second one. A cordwainer (or cordovan) is a shoemaker who makes fine soft leather shoes and other luxury footwear articles. The word is derived from "cordwain", or "cordovan", the leather produced in Córdoba, Spain. The term cordwainer was used as early as 1100 in England. Historically, there was a distinction between a cordwainer, who made luxury shoes and boots out of the finest leathers, and a cobbler, who repaired them. This is the same sewing machine the guy was using in the Vuitton video. I found it online for sale; about $5,000 The work of a cobbler was similar to that of a saddle maker. They used lots of the same types of tools; awls, sewing needle various leather tools etc. Some of the machines in the video are pneumatic presses, and sander/grinders are made just for shoe repair or manufacturing. searching for a shoe makers knife I stumbled on this arbelos , math and geometry is always interesting and a stiching awl. Here is an awesome blog for shoemaking