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.
On Baltic Birch
We’ve recently been admiring photos of a friend’s new kitchen. The cabinets and drawers are pale, clear-coated plywood, the grain visible and
2022-09-05
Sean Kelley on the dream of crowd-developed hardware, Boeing’s last 747s, and the ongoing chip shortage.