-
Recent Posts
- Improv breakdown
- BREAKING: A New Phase of Matter
- Can AI companies compete with researchers using their tools? #stem #science #millenium
- JWST Found a Black Hole Wearing a Star’s Atmosphere
- Loving our new home!
- We found what we were looking for! – GIANT YELLOW JABOTICABA (Mulchi Fruit)
- Why English Keeps Turning its Vowels into ‘Uh’
- We Bought a 100-Year-Old Arts Commune (Ep. 1)
Archives
Categories
Category Archives: Design
Better Shelter on BBC World Service: People Fixing the World | BetterShelter
Getting refugees out of tents: can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people? On a day of record-setting heat in Sweden, Better Shelter was visited by the production team at the BBC World Service – People Fixing the … Continue reading
How To Make Shelter Relax In The summer Ep1
How To Make Shelter Relax In The summer Ep1
Industrial Fire Hoses and Bricks Are Upcycled into a Minimal Outdoor Furniture Set | Colossal
AUGUST 25, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Local Works Studio Loretta Bosence and Ben Bosence are behind the East Sussex-based Local Works Studio, which recently completed a furniture collection focused on revitalizing what’s been discarded or cast aside. Designed for … Continue reading
Cannon-Thurston maps: naturally occurring space-filling curves
Saul Schleimer and I attempt to explain what a Cannon-Thurston map is. Thanks to my brother Will Segerman for making the carvings, and to Daniel Piker for making the figure-eight knot animations. I made the animation of the (super crinkly) … Continue reading
Meet The World’s Most Curious Human
Ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is a chef, astrophysicist, paleontologist and inventor who is trying to out-engineer the climate crisis. In this episode of Hello World, we visit his lab to see how. […]
How can history help the never-ending human dance with water? | Aeon Essays
Preparing the fields near Gotemba, Japan, in 2000. Photo by Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum As storms, droughts and floods become more intense, what can the world learn from Japan’s profoundly wet history? In early June 2018, I landed at Kansai airport in … Continue reading
Why Singapore Is Insanely Well Designed
Why Singapore Is Insanely Well Designed #singapore #infrastructure #urbanplanning
The Huge, Weird Batteries of the Future
As the planet gets hotter, engineers are racing to find ways to store energy on a massive scale, clearing the way for a transition to renewable electricity.
msamba 