Moscow Hill Horse Camp

The view of the Moscow Hill Horse Camp from where I camped. There were no equestrians around this time of year, as the trails are closed in the winter to prevent damage. If there was more snow, you might see snowmobilers here.

Taken on Sunday December 29, 2019 at Charles Baker State Forest.

LNG #BombTrucks 101 – Google Docs

LNG #BombTrucks 101 – Google Docs

You often see these trucks with highly compressed natural gas on the roads, which help natural gas companies overcome pipeline limitations which put cost constraints on the movement of gas. They're has been a number of these trucks that have been in crashes in recent years, although so far there has not been a major explosion or release of gas from the trucks.

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Why Some Rope Knots Hold Better Than Others : NPR

Special fibers that change color when they are under strain have helped scientists come up with some simple rules that can predict how a knot will perform in the real world.

There's a whole field of mathematics that studies knots, to explore abstract properties of idealized curves. "But that's not what you care about if you are, for example, a sailor or a climber and you need to tie something which holds," says Vishal Patil, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose new findings appear in the journal Science.