Ever wonder how your colleagues are using Knovel to solve problems? Knovel Solution Stories present real life problems or use cases, along with a detailed walkthrough of how to use Knovel to find solutions. In this blog post, we give you a sneak peek of the problem being featured next week. Problem: A bellows pressure relief (PR) valve needs to be sized in terms of the mass flow rate for…

Good morning and welcome to another edition of the K-Exchange Monday Link Review, our weekly collection of the best science and engineering links from across the world-wide-web. Ecouterre.com has a story on scientists from MIT who have synthesized a fiber that is capable of hearing, singing and generating electricty! GreenAnswers.com takes a look at the famous five second rule, and deems it unsafe. The box office succes of the movie…

Bacon and Eggs walk into a bar, bartender says “sorry, we don’t serve breakfast.” What’s orange and sounds like “a parrot?” -  A CARROT! Why couldn’t the pirate go see the movie? – Because it was rated ARRRRRRRR. Some jokes just get less and less funny the longer they are around. Now don’t get me wrong, I love a good “That’s what she said”, but it’s fading fast. There was…

The content team at Knovel is thrilled to publish ASM content, extending our collection of authoritative materials information. No one is as excited as Sasha Gurke, Senior Vice-President and Co-founder of Knovel. In this phone interview, Sasha shared with me his long history working with ASM and the value of this authoritative materials information. Meagan Cooke: When did you first work with ASM International? Sasha Gurke: A long time ago….

Welcome to another edition of the Monday Link Review, our weekly collection of the best science and Engineering Links from around the web. This week we look at some weird factories, Robot Soccer, and some Bullet Proof Custard. Popular Mechanics is one of our favorite sites for weird and wild links. This week, we find a gallery of The World’s 18 Strangest Factories, places where they building may be more…