Last summer, I had a chance to sail in a local Wednesday night race with some friends I had not seen in a while. They have a PHRF boat they sail in the jib and main class, and although their priority ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

Wonder how some people just magically look perfect in every photo, while you always end up looking like a dork? In this digital age where our every move is captured, uploaded, and splashed across ...

For an engine to survive all the rocking and rolling it produces, those forces need to be counterbalanced with equal—or at least nearly equal—forces. Today, most production-car engines with more than ...

AbstractLinear polarization measurements provide access to two quantities, the degree (DOP) and the angle of polarization (AOP). The aim of this work is to give a complete and concise overview of how ...

[Herman Erlichson was a physicist and a historian of science (he had Ph.D.s in both). He was also an avid golfer - and my uncle. He passed away just over a year ago, and I've been wanting to write ...