2022-05-09
Dan Hui on pandemic film production, Ukrainian rail, and the liquidation industry.
Made in the USA
Starting 2022-05-06, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading Vaclav Smil’s Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing.
In Case of Emergency
A brief history of just-in-time manufacture The pandemic has brought not one crisis, but many. Supply disruptions have meant that products from paper
2022-05-02
Lee Wilkins on the wild history of ballooning, bathrooms in space, and radioactive toys.
The Future is Old News
An interview with Fred Scharmen It’s an exciting time in space news, with ever accelerating launch schedules and new private space companies staking out
2022-04-25
Kane Hsieh on sharing tools, radar interference tracking, and why all the creme ends up on one side of a twisted-apart Oreo.