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For Good Measure
An interview with James Vincent, author of Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants.…
Interview
Interviews with authors, thinkers, and operators in the build environment.
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States of Matter
An Interview with material scientist Mark Miodownik
In Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape our Man-Made World, Mark…
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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…
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Singing Praise for the String Age
An interview with Virginia Postrel on the history of textiles.
Virginia Postrel’s The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made…
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Standard Issue Fun
An interview with an ASTM volunteer who keeps amusement parks safe.
Standards quietly subtend everything in the modern world -…
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NYC x MFG
An interview with Neil Padukone
While researching our recent piece on Vaclav Smil’s Made in the USA, I reached…
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The Future is Old News
An interview with Fred Scharmen
It’s an exciting time in space news, with ever accelerating launch schedules and new…
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Learning at Scale
An Interview with Stewart Brand
A few months ago Stewart Brand, a reader of this newsletter, signed up to become…
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Glass Act
The Coanda effect and why we transform nuclear waste into borosilicate glass.
Every week, after the flagship Monday issue of…
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Don't Kick the Robot
A conversation with Kate Darling on our future with robots
Dr. Kate Darling is a researcher at the MIT Media…
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Reinventing the Wheel
An interview with Alex Animashaun of the Tuck Bike
A few months ago, Alex Animashaun presented his prototyping process at…
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The Big Score Interview
A conversation with Michael S. Malone on the history of Silicon Valley.
In 1985, Charlie Sporck, then president of National…