7 min read Ford and Macadam. It used to be rare that more than a couple of sentences at a time were cut from drafts of…
Project Notes • 7 min read Accord of the Rings Hillary Predko on the strange and powerful Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.…
Palm Oil • 6 min read A Technological Shortcut TW Lim on palm oil, the primordial goop of our packaged consumer economy.…
Interview • 7 min read Byte-Sized History An Interview with Laine Nooney, author of The Apple II Age…
Project Notes • 6 min read On Community. Hillary Predko on how the SOW community has infiltrated her life.…
Interview • 13 min read A More Fun Ride Jan Heine on the physics of pneumatic tires, the rise of gravel cycling, and his role in the bike industry.…
Rubber • 8 min read Cars. Since the introduction of the Model T, the rubber industry has evolved in tandem with the automobile industry – and American car culture.…
Reading Group • 1 min read We're reading Shape While I still traverse Cartesian planes in CAD, most of the geometry I learned in school is now a distant…
15 min read An Ode to Living on The Grid An interview with Deb Chachra, author of How Infrastructure Works Deb Chachra is a material scientist and engineering professor at…