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White Elephant.
It’s not a cure for waste or a cure for loneliness, but it’s something.…
Project Notes
Things learned in the course of work.
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Notes, 2024-02-05.
Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the enduring appeal of Antarctic exploration.…
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Notes, 2024-01-29.
Spencer Wright on adoquines, the Nacirema, and public benefit corporations.…
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On Documentation
Here’s a partial list of surprising things about human technology:
* Throughout history, when someone has learned something that they…
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Tallow to Margarine
TW Lim on how we went from mining nature for particular fats, to mining fats for their components.…
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How Slow Scan TV Shaped The Moon
lee wilkins on slow scan TV, the technology that brought the moon landing to the masses.…
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Notes, 2023-12-11
James Coleman on the complexity of incentive structures around negative emissions technologies.…
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Notes, 2023-12-04.
With 2023 drawing to a close, I have a New Year’s resolution: I will do more field reporting. This…
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Plastic Archeology.
George Cave on the evolution of Lego and the archeology of plastic.…
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Accord of the Rings
Hillary Predko on the strange and powerful Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.…
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On Community.
Hillary Predko on how the SOW community has infiltrated her life.…
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Notes, 2023-10-09
lee wilkins on the complexities of 3D printing clay.…