#news: the #Iran war has boosted PCB prices 40% in April alone, and copper foil prices 30% this year, because the #Saudi Jubail petrochemical complex produced a critical resin.
#Leonardo did some initial research in beam theory for #mechanisms; ASME member Roberto Ballarini at CWRU writes, “For the specific case he considered of a rectangular cross-section, [Leonardo] argues for equal tensile and compressive strains at the outer fibers, the existence of a neutral surface, and a linear strain distribution. Of course, [Leonardo] did not have available to him Hooke’s law and the calculus.”
02017 #news (#history) on the difficulty in recruiting #Shkreli jurors:
Juror No 59: “Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because – ”
The court: “OK. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime who has not been proven guilty?”
Juror No 59: “It’s my attitude toward his entire demeanor, what he has done to people.”
The court: “All right. We are going to excuse you, sir.”
Juror No 59: “And he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.”