Notes, 2023-12-04.
With 2023 drawing to a close, I have a New Year’s resolution: I will do more field reporting. This has been on my mind
Let a Hundred Mechanisms Bloom.
Spencer Wright on antique apple parers, and how an old tool can force you to confront a problem anew.
Plastic Archeology.
George Cave on the evolution of Lego and the archeology of plastic.
Ford and Macadam.
It used to be rare that more than a couple of sentences at a time were cut from drafts of this newsletter. For years I
Accord of the Rings
Hillary Predko on the strange and powerful Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.
Better Than Absolutely Required
Surgery Simulation AMA with Andrew Edman