Weathering does not attack rock evenly. It finds cracks, corners and weaknesses, and the shapes left standing are whatever it could not reach. Here are seventeen.
1. The Rock Was…
Maya Linton
Continuous novelty is tiring in a way that is easy to miss, and the cost shows up as days that were spent rather than experienced. Here are ten things worth…
Dry heat does two things to spices, nuts and seeds: it releases what was locked inside them and it creates compounds that were never there. Here are fifteen.
1. Moisture…
Everything difficult about a watch comes from being small, portable and attached to somebody. The timekeeping principles are the same as a clock; the conditions are entirely different. Here are…
The shaft is not holding the canopy up. A sliding collar pushes struts outward, those push the ribs out, and the fabric between them is stretched tight - which is…
There is a widespread mental model of a kite that treats the string as a leash, restraining something that would otherwise escape.
That model produces a specific prediction: cut the…