Mechanix Illustrated, published monthly from 1928 through 2001, was a delightful source of gee-whiz technology, down-to-earth do-it-yourself projects, and some of the funniest automotive writing anywhere thanks to the incomparable Tom McCahill. (By the way, there is large collection of complete issues of Mechanix Illustrated available at the Internet Archive.)
A regular feature was “Eye Stoppers”, which every month presented a page or two of striking images with brief descriptions. That’s what this Scanalyst topic is about: things you’ve seen that caught your eye and are worth sharing.
One author (James Chadwick), one page, one Nobel prize (1935). Later in 1932, Chadwick published a less tentative paper, “The Existence of a Neutron” in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. That paper, also by a sole author, was 17 pages and gave a complete description of the experiment and results.
The list of authors on one of the two papers announcing discovery of the Higgs boson is eight pages long.
The mandir’s construction commenced in 2010. The mandir was built in the Nagaradi style using 68,000 cubic feet of Italian Carrara marble. The marble obtained from quarries in Europe was shipped to Rajasthan, India where hundreds of artisans carved the stones. After the finished pieces of stone were assembled in workshops, engineers sequentially numbered the pieces and shipped them to Robbinsville. Upon their arrival, the pieces were organized using the numbering system to facilitate the mandir’s construction.
The mandir was constructed primarily through the efforts of artisans and volunteers who provided an estimated 4.7 million human hours.
This is in a browser (Google Chrome), configured for English user interface, with English as the preferred language for Web site communications. So, Microsoft apparently geolocated my IP address, found that it was in Switzerland, and blindly assumed, disregarding the language preference sent them in the HTTP request header, that the reply should be in the language spoken by 65% of the Swiss population, not the 95% of where I actually live.
No, my post was a screen shot so you could see what my browser displayed. If you look at CTLaw’s original comment, I’ll bet you see the Bing link expansion in English.
