Really Robust: Earthquake-Proof Desk Survives Smash Tests
A student and professor pair, Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno, started with the classic advice of hiding under one’s school desk in an earthquake, but asked how safe a proposition this really is.
To see how their own variant would work, they dropped a thousand kilogram weight on it – sure enough, it deformed but did not break, effectively protecting the person stowed away beneath it.
