Notes, 2023-01-30
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on rising to the challenges wrought by disasters, corralling invasive carp, and subsea cable chokepoints.…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
2023-01-23
Amreeta Duttchoudhury on the joys of unfinished projects, tool-in ceremonies, and the recent NOTAM outage.…
2023-01-16
Harrison Lin on light – from calculating the air mass coefficient to the color rendering index.…
2023-01-09
Spencer Wright on the residential construction industry, the perils of project management, and the naïveté of someone in their early twenties…
Secondhand
Starting 2023-01-06, Scope of Work’s Reading Group is reading Adam Minter’s Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage…
2023-01-02
Hillary Predko on what we published in 2022.…
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The Prepared is now Scope of Work
Spencer Wright on what "The Prepared" has meant, and how "Scope of Work" is different.…
2022-12-19
Hillary Predko on muscle memory, Hudson Yards, and plutonium safety at Los Alamos.…
On Chindogu
The near-universal comedy of technological failure
The story goes that Thomas Edison ran thousands of failed experiments before landing on…
2022-12-12
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the thermal stability of the soil beneath out feet and our capacity to harness it with ground source heat pumps.…
2022-12-05
George Cave on the limitations of job titles, how car-first thinking permeates language, and why company names can't include computer code.…
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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