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Excellent writing about the physical world.



A Technological Shortcut
TW Lim on palm oil, the primordial goop of our packaged consumer economy.…

Byte-Sized History
An Interview with Laine Nooney, author of The Apple II Age…

On Community.
Hillary Predko on how the SOW community has infiltrated her life.…

A More Fun Ride
Jan Heine on the physics of pneumatic tires, the rise of gravel cycling, and his role in the bike industry.…


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While I still traverse Cartesian planes in CAD, most of the geometry I learned in school is now a distant…
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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…


On Pneumatic Tires.
Pneumatic tires were invented (and then promptly forgotten) in 1846. Then, they became perhaps the quintessential twentieth-century transportation technology.…

Notes, 2023-09-25
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on composites, vacations, and the FAA.…
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