Here listed are the sources used to write the "Lab Notes" column "Crash Test Cities."Wikipedia: ("Car Accident"):
http://www.wikipedia.org "The Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Hearing on Relieving Highway Congestion through Capacity Enhancements and Increased Efficiency,"
http://www.house.gov "We Are All Safer: NTSB-Inspired Improvements in Transportation Safety,"
http://www.ntsb.gov "Tornado Skips Across Miami,"
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtmiami.htm The Encyclopedia Britannica, 2004 Edition ("Tunguska Event")
Wil McCarthy is a rocket guidance engineer, robot designer, nanotechnologist, science-fiction author and occasional aquanaut. He has contributed to three interplanetary spacecraft, five communication and weather satellites, a line of landmine-clearing robots and some other "really cool stuff" he can't tell us about. His short writings have graced the pages of Analog, Asimov's, Wired, Nature and other major publications, and his book-length works include the New York Times notable Bloom, Amazon "Best of Y2K" The Collapsium and most recently Lost in Transmission. His acclaimed nonfiction book, Hacking Matter, is now available in paperback.
