It Does Not Catch Anything
The name does not help and the shape does not help. It is a metal box in an exhaust pipe, the pipe is dirty, and…
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The Problem Is Harder Than It Sounds
A machine taking money has to answer a question that a person answers effortlessly and unconsciously: is this a real coin, and which…
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Unannounced, up a ladder, with a bucket and a piece of leather. Here are ten.
1. He Arrived Without Warning
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There was no appointment, no card through the…
Three Pins, Three Completely Different Jobs
It looks like a symmetrical arrangement of three identical things, and it is nothing of the kind. The three pins are doing three unrelated…
The Belief Is Universal and It Is Backwards
Ask anybody how a microwave differs from a conventional oven and you will be told that it heats from the inside out.…
The Thing That Is Missing Is Ink
Open a photocopier and there is no liquid anywhere. No reservoir, no cartridge of fluid, no nib, no pad, no ribbon. The consumable…