As I have said here several times before, I flat out *love* Wired magazine. I've been a subscriber since the mid 1990s (I think, maybe longer) and I try to read every issue.
Lately they've taken to using science and more directly, physics, to explain things we see or do every day that are fascinating, but we don't give that much thought to. The author of these articles is Rhett Allain. He is an associate professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and a pretty entertaining writer as well.
In the last couple of weeks, there have been some mainstream news media stories about some photos and videos released by North Korea that show some of their soldiers doing some pretty incredible things. In today's world it's hard to believe anything you see whether it's still photos or video. Our ability to edit digital media allows us to warp reality to pretty much whatever we'd like.
To that end, the North Korean videos look pretty amazing. One in particular shows a soldier lying on a bed of nails with a large brick on his abdomen. The brick is then smashed by another soldier wielding a sledge hammer.
Professor Allain does an amazing job of how these things are possible with minimal risk by utilizing the laws of physics to prove his point.
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