If you wish to make a toaster from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
An interview with Thomas Thwaites. For his Master’s thesis project, Thomas Thwaites set out to produce a quotidian object from scratch: a toaster. He
2022-09-26
Spencer Wright on sincerity, termites, and concrete wave dissipation systems.
Stuff Matters
Starting 2022-09-23, The Prepared’s Reading Group is reading Mark Miodownik’s Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World.
Local Neon
The quiet crackling sound of a lamp turning on gives way to the hazy but articulated glow of neon, which has illuminated downtown horizons for
2022-09-19
Anna & Kelly Pendergrast on New Zealand’s Gib crisis, eco-industrial parks, and Bhutan’s experimental postage stamps.
2022-09-12
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the value of coaching, spin forming metal, and whether Americans would actually want to work in semiconductor manufacturing.