String Clown
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Podcast: Will We Ever Prove String Theory? | The Joy Of Why. A theoretical physicist makes a valiant case that the mathematical elegance of string theory is reason enough to keep investigating it (48m 39s)
Video: The Clown Car | YouTube | Cool Ideas | 4m 19s
Genial presentation of the quirky 1943 DAF Mobile Raincoat, a three-wheeled car created in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation. The car was small enough to fit through a doorway, with a front wheel that could rotate 180 degrees. Despite its odd appearance, the car had real innovation — its technology was a precursor to the CVT transmission. Post-war, the car was handed off to a circus.
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