Byte-Sized History
An Interview with Laine Nooney, author of The Apple II Age…
Scope of Work
Excellent writing about the physical world.
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.…
Cars.
Since the introduction of the Model T, the rubber industry has evolved in tandem with the automobile industry – and American car culture.…
We're reading Shape
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…
Notes, 2023-10-09
lee wilkins on the complexities of 3D printing clay.…
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.…
Mechanical Imagineering with Colin Godby
An interview with ex-Imagineer (and present-day mechanical engineer) Colin Godby.…
On Alchemy.
Hillary Predko on the transmutation that occurs inside a nuclear reactor.…
On Gravel.
Spencer Wright on the National Forest System's staggering quantity of unpaved roads.…
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