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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…
Hillary Predko
Hillary Predko is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works across the boundaries of craft and computation with a penchant for trash.
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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…
2021-10-18
Hillary Predko on bizarre Alibaba finds, San Francisco's bespoke trash cans, and the precise definition of flotsam and jetsam.…
2021-08-23
Hillary Predko on phytomining, fire sighting, and air traffic control.…
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Paper Trails
A conversation with Cameron Blevins on the operational history of the USPS
As American settlers headed west in covered wagons…
2021-07-19
Hillary Predko on crystal radios, North Korean CNC capacity, and bullet train biomimicry.…
2021-04-19
Habitat 67, a brutalist apartment complex arranged like an alien beehive, looms in the distance from the city side banks of downtown Montreal...…
2021-01-18
Announcing the 2021 Adhesives cup - a grand battle of glues, tapes and other sticky stuff. Voting starts today to crown the (totally subjectively)...…
2020-11-02
Editor's note: If you live in the US and can vote, please do! -SW
Notes, 2020-11-02.
I recently…
2020-08-03
Panamax, Neopanamax, Post-Neopanamax 🚢…
2020-05-04
Notes, 2020-05-04.
It may come as no surprise that my research trip to the high arctic I mentioned in my…