2022-03-28
Sean Kelley on the iron triangle of project management, London's Crossrail train, and folding shipping containers.…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
2022-03-21
Spencer Wright on rotor ships, daylight "saving" time, and an outlandish theory about the Fermi paradox…
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.…
2022-03-07
Anna & Kelly Pendergrast on moving the London Bridge to Arizona, vertical wind turbines, and QR codes' comeback.…
Anyone Can Build a House
The Segal method and the UK's self-build movement
In 1962, the German-born architect Walter Segal was living in…
2022-02-28
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on science fiction, multi-layer insulation, and the appeal of the Antanov An-225.…
2022-02-21
Skyler Adams on the great capacitor plague, the challenges with surgical robots, and the ever accelerating pace of fast fashion.…
Déneigement Montreal
A peek into Montreal's mastery of snow
Before moving to Montreal in 2020, I had lived my whole…
2022-02-14
Kane Hsieh on messy knowledge transfer, McFlurry machine litigation, and Patek Phillipe industrial timekeeping systems.…
A Never Ending Grind
The mortar and pestle is one of the most common kitchen tools in the world, and one of the most…
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2022-02-07
Brian Potter on the value of speculation, Roman maps, and the recent Tonga eruption.…
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