2022-10-10
Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo on the sublime in the built world from salt-carved monuments 2 km underground, to the world’s submarine cables.
2022-10-03
Hillary Predko on IMST's robot arms, Alberta's oil sands, and steeplejacks.
If you wish to make a toaster from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
An interview with Thomas Thwaites. For his Master’s thesis project, Thomas Thwaites set out to produce a quotidian object from scratch: a toaster. He
2022-09-26
Spencer Wright on sincerity, termites, and concrete wave dissipation systems.
Stuff Matters
Starting 2022-09-23, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading Mark Miodownik’s Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World.
Local Neon
The quiet crackling sound of a lamp turning on gives way to the hazy but articulated glow of neon, which has illuminated downtown horizons for