Passing out as the sole pilot of an aircraft flying tens of thousands of feet above ground sounds like a recipe for disaster. The only thing between the plane and the ground is the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System. The AGCAS software takes control of an aircraft when the fighter pilot has experienced G-induced loss of consciousness and is in danger of crashing. Acting at heights as low as 2,600 feet above ground level, it has saved at least eleven lives so far. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
