On Chindogu
The near-universal comedy of technological failure The story goes that Thomas Edison ran thousands of failed experiments before landing on a working design for
2022-12-12
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the thermal stability of the soil beneath out feet and our capacity to harness it with ground source heat pumps.
2022-12-05
George Cave on the limitations of job titles, how car-first thinking permeates language, and why company names can't include computer code.
States of Matter
An Interview with material scientist Mark Miodownik In Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape our Man-Made World, Mark Miodownik argues that “civilization
2022-11-28
Spencer Wright on the projects -- and tools -- that sustained him this year.
Notes, 2022-11-21
TW Lim on industrial production and staple foods - from the ways geopolitics influence our diets to the intricacies of flour inspection.