Notes, 2023-07-10
Anna and Kelly Pendergrast on the secret recipes, the superstition, and the myths embedded in what we call “innovation.”
On Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls has long been a site of public negotiation and debate, weighing the inherent value of nature against the value of natural resources.
Make Big Plans
An interview with Bent Flyvbjerg, author of How Big Things Get Done
On Hevea.
How the Brazilian rubber tree made Manaus – and then left it behind.
We're reading The Imagineering Story
Disney is in the business of developing technologies that are indistinguishable from magic. This goal is aided by a research and development apparatus known as