{"id":218,"date":"2007-12-20T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2007-12-20T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:47:47","slug":"or-in-popular-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/or-in-popular-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"OR in Popular Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I loved the magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\"><em>Popular Mechanics<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 In addition to articles on futuristic cars and planes, they always had articles on how things worked, and I seem to recall mechanically oriented projects that were always just outside my abilities.\u00a0 As time went on, I realized that my mechanical abilities were limited indeed, so I moved on to the more cerebral <em>Scientific American<\/em> and mathematics.\u00a0 These days, I am always amazed when I see <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em> in bookstores:\u00a0 it is like a blast from the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Nicholson of the University of Michigan wrote me to point out that a recent article in the magazine has a heavy OR focus.\u00a0 In an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/transportation\/4237593.html?page=4\">Improving Air Travel<\/a>,\u00a0 one of the ten possible improvements, changing boarding strategies, is explicitly an OR approach.\u00a0 A few of the other suggestions, including re-pricing landing slots to encourage better spreading of planes and the use of RFID in luggage tracking, are also OR approaches to air travel problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I loved the magazine Popular Mechanics.\u00a0 In addition to articles on futuristic cars and planes, they always had articles on how things worked, and I seem to recall mechanically oriented projects that were always just outside my abilities.\u00a0 As time went on, I realized that my mechanical abilities were limited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/or-in-popular-mechanics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OR in Popular Mechanics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-or-in-the-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}