Tag: Laws of Scale

Zero Sum Autobesity

November 18, 2025 By arne hendriks Off

Cars produced in 2024 are on average 5% taller than cars in 2016. The average car length in 2016 was 420cm, in 2024 it was 441cm. In the same period car width has also increased from 176cm to 182cm, and quite a few recent models…

Short Hearts

April 9, 2013 By arne hendriks Off

Despite what many of us think, tall stature is not synonymous with health. Although anthropometric historians like Robert Fogel and John Komlos stress that the reasons why we are so tall are the result of better health, this doesn’t mean that being tall itself is…