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  • Seeing Cast Iron Frying Pans Get Made Makes Me Want To Cook

    Seeing Cast Iron Frying Pans Get Made Makes Me Want To Cook

    Video: Cineastas spent some time with Mike Whitehead and Finex Cast Iron Cookware Co. to give a glimpse of how Finex is trying to reinvent something that has existed for thousands of years: cast iron. I love the slow and considered process that goes into each frying pan. And I love to imagine the delicious…


  • 3D Printing Just Wireframe Models Can Vastly Speed Up Prototyping

    3D Printing Just Wireframe Models Can Vastly Speed Up Prototyping

    When 3D printing technologies were first adopted for manufacturing decades ago, they were referred to as rapid prototyping machines because compared to old methods, they were able to churn out parts with remarkable speed. But even today’s 3D printing technology has room for improvement, and a new technique that involves printing only simple wireframe models…


  • Listen To A Pilot With Hypoxia, Guided By ATC, Safely Land A Learjet

    Commercial airliners (and other high-altitude craft) are pressurised for a reason — along with it being a fair bit colder up there, there’s less oxygen for us to breathe. Above 10,000 feet (3000m) It doesn’t take long for a condition known as hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, to set in, causing a range of symptoms that…