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.…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
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…
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…
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.…
2022-04-18
James Coleman on beach nourishment, light saber patents, and pit crew logistics.…
2022-04-11
David Cranor on egg yolk color swatches, ransomware, and the brilliant engineering behind the humble jerry can.…
2022-04-04
Ben Lachman and Andrew Cantino on the complexity and promise of in situ resource utilization in outer space.…
2022-03-28
Sean Kelley on the iron triangle of project management, London's Crossrail train, and folding shipping containers.…
Space Forces
Starting 2022-03-21, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading Fred Scharmen’s Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space.…
2022-03-21
Spencer Wright on rotor ships, daylight "saving" time, and an outlandish theory about the Fermi paradox…
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