How to design a rollercoaster – with Brendan Walker
Ri Science Podcast
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How Fast Should a Ride Really Go?
Charles Darwin was criticized for comparing human expressions to those in the animal kingdom, particularly towards primates. But our facial expressions aren't the only things we share with the primate world,. You'll notice here Charles Darwin's grabbing a branch with his foot. We start to become a little bit sweaty. In evolutionary terms, that's supposed to have helped us to be able to either swing through the forest towards our prey or actually to evade danger. If this idea of gripping onto things, you can see when you start to study people in fairgrounds, people really do hang on for dear life. And if we actually get to a speed where the perceived risk exceeds the reward of arousal we get, people
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