Engineering a More Efficient Sleigh: Advancing Santa’s Christmas Eve Operations
The logistical undertaking of Santa's Christmas Eve journey is staggering. In 24 hours, his sleigh must traverse the globe, somehow accessing over two billion households along the convoluted paths of chimneys, dropping off presents customised to the individual households. According to calculations, with 31 hours of Christmas Eve...
The Science of Christmas – Five ways reindeer are perfectly evolved for pulling Santa’s sleigh
We all know that Father Christmas would struggle to deliver presents to everyone around the world without the help of his magical reindeer. But why were they chosen to pull the sleigh rather than any other animal? It turns out that the biology of reindeer makes them ideal...
Will AI ‘SantaNet’ end up destroying the world?
The ghost of Christmas yet to come: how an AI 'SantaNet' might end up destroying the world Within the next few decades, according to some experts, we may see the arrival of the next step in the development of artificial intelligence. So-called “artificial general intelligence”, or AGI, will...