The magic of the 'intake, compression, combustion, exhaust' cycle and bypass ratio.
Modern railways powered by motor and inverter technology.
From Bernoulli's principle to fly-by-wire.
A 500 km/h world brought about by superconductivity and the Meissner effect.
The secrets of the high-speed railway boasting a record of zero fatal accidents for over half a century.
Explore sixteen economic shocks, including the Great Depression, oil crises, Japan's bubble collapse, the Asian crisis, Lehman and COVID-19, through triggers, vulnerabilities and transmission, with the mechanisms of banks, currencies, debt, supply chains and policy.
Go beyond the name Rayleigh scattering to explore the fourth-power wavelength law, electromagnetic waves and molecules, why the sky is not violet, sunsets, white clouds, polarization, and multiple scattering, from everyday observations to radiative transfer.
Why don't galaxies tear apart? The unknown identities that make up 95% of the universe.
What can we 'design' in a world where space itself is quantized?
Displays and tracking systems designed to deceive the human brain.
Why you shouldn't send all data to the cloud.
Why can quantum computers break RSA encryption? A comprehensive explanation of the differences between classical and quantum bits, quantum gates, quantum entanglement, the mathematical foundation of Shor's algorithm, and the challenges of NISQ devices.
Will programmers lose their jobs, or will they gain new weapons?
How the standard that gives 'ownership' to digital data works.
DH key agreement, RSA, and elliptic curve group operations, with their mathematical conditions, security assumptions, and roles in real protocols.
The mechanism of a decentralized computer where 'code is law'.
PoW, PoS, and the Solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem (PBFT).
How the two major vulnerabilities of Web applications are exploited.
The end of VPN-based 'perimeter defense' and the 'trust no one' network. Unraveling the essence of Zero Trust and BeyondCorp.
Exploring GraphQL as a query language that solves over-fetching and under-fetching, and delving into the true value of REST's orthodox architecture
