Feb
13
Jelly rolls and coking drums: a bottom-up look at batteries 🔋
I’ve spent a lot of the past few months thinking about batteries, which turn out
to be one of
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materialworld
Feb
10
The thing we're trying to escape is the thing we need to help us escape
Long before he was famous for sexual misconduct, Louis CK was famous, at least
in some circles, for having given
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Oct
12
We need more maps
Were it not for a mapping error, or rather a series of them, Christopher
Columbus might never have sailed for
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Sep
09
Rare earths: everything you ever wanted to know
Or rather: everything you never really wanted to know but certainly ought to know, especially since the device you're reading this on almost certainly has rare earths in it
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Sep
08
The most underrated material in the modern world
Concrete. A blot on the urban landscape, right? Boring, ugly, lifeless and
destructive, right?
Well hold on. Because here are
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