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"This textbook is intended to introduce engineering graduate students to the essentials of
modern Continuum Mechanics. This understanding should include an appreciation for the status of the classical theories as special cases of general nonlinear continuum models. The relationship of the classical theories to nonlinear models is essential in light of the increasing reliance, by engineering designers and researchers, on prepackaged computer codes. These codes are based upon models which have a specific and limited range of validity. Given the danger associated with the use of these computer codes in circumstances where the model is not valid, engineers have a need for an in depth understanding of continuum mechanics and the continuum models which can be formulated by use of continuum mechanics techniques."
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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1
You’ll like that one. It’s Wired’s cover story about anti-vaccine parents. You’ll love the guy they come up with for the “pro-science” angle.
Thanks for the link. All the way from climate change to vaccines, those who do not understand science should not speak it.
“Looking back over history, rationality has been the anomaly.” This whole anti-vaccine movement just proves my theory that humans are mostly intellectually lazy and that the work of a rational and inspired few drives civilization forward, the rest pulled into the future by their self-imposed yokes.