Bryan Steil, a US congressman for Wisconsin, has been mocked by netizens on Twitter and in Chinese social media for a recent tweet saying that he could not read the bilingual “instructions” in both Chinese and English for a made-in-China KN95 facial mask.
By drorzel on August 21, 2013.
After a couple of very productive days where I closed my Twitter tab because it was too freakin annoying to read, I checked in briefly Wednesday morning, and found Rhett Allain and Frank Noschese discussing this Veritasium bullet-in-block experiment:
Tom at Swans On Tea offers some analysis, and Rhett offers a video response doing out some of the math:
I basically agree with their explanations, and that should have been that, except that in his discussion Rhett mentioned that the bullet probably doesn t go as far into the spinning block, which prompted Frank to ask whether you could measure and/or calculate the difference. Which sucked me in, and rather than working on the book chapter I d planned to do this morning, I found myself scribbling equations. Which just goes to show that Twitter is the work of the devil.