Popular Posts by Category

Here are some of the more popular posts in this blog, arranged by category.  To search for a particular topic not shown here, use the search box (little magnifying glass in it) at the upper left corner of the webpage. 

Book reviews:

A Riveting Story:  The Titanic's 94-Year-Old Mystery Solved (What Really Sank the Titanic) (12/22/08)

Wisdom Literature for21st-Century Engineers (Lyle's Laws:  Reflections on Ethics, Engineering, and Everything Else) (9/9/2013)

Wendell Berry and the Two Economies (The Art of the Commonplace) (11/15/10)

Disasters:

A Riveting Story:  The Titanic's 94-Year-Old Mystery Solved (12/22/08)

The Chilean Mine Accident:  Bad News and Good News (8/30/10)

Lessons from the Russian Hydroelectric Plant Accident (8/24/09)

Building Codes, Earthquakes, and Haiti (1/25/10)

Nuclear Power:  Meltdown In Japan?  (3/13/11)

Deep Problems from the Deepwater Horizon (5/3/10)

CreepingDisaster:  The Big Dig Tunnel Tragedy One Year Later  (7/17/07)

The Air France 447 Crash:  The Rest of the Story (12/19/11)

High-Speed Rail Crash In China:  Too Fast Too Soon? (8/29/11)

Boeing's 787 Battery Eggs:  All In One Lithium Basket (1/28/13)

The Disaster in West (4/22/13)

The Quebec Rail Disaster:  Nine Notorious Necessities (7/14/13)

Engineering Ethics (general):

Microethics, Macroethics, and the Working Engineer (10/5/09)

Rising Expectations and Engineering Ethics (12/28/09)

Engineering Ethics and Natural Law (11/28/10)

Ethics and the Wisdom of Proverbs (6/11/12)

Not Really The Only Ethics Rule You'll Ever Need (7/28/08)

Humor:

The Day The Submarine Theater Flipped Over (8/20/12)

Movie reviews:

Tesla and the Secret of "The Prestige" (11/14/2006)

Engineering Ethics In the Movies:  The Bridge On the River Kwai (6/21/10)