Notes, 2023-02-20
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the interplay between the built world and the passage of time.
For Good Measure
An interview with James Vincent, author of Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants.
Notes, 2023-02-13
Hillary Predko on buildingsheds, reducing carbon emissions from steel production, and anonymously authored designs.
Notes, 2023-02-06
lee wilkins on the intersections of textiles and computing, historical media storage, and liquid mirror telescopes.
Notes, 2023-01-30
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on rising to the challenges wrought by disasters, corralling invasive carp, and subsea cable chokepoints.
2023-01-23
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the joys of unfinished projects, tool-in ceremonies, and the recent NOTAM outage.