The useful thing to look at in any harbour is the wall - which direction it faces, how high it stands and where the entrance is - because that tells…
Maya Linton
Look at any vernacular building and the roof tells you the weather before anybody mentions it. Here are eleven of the things a roof is arguing with.
1. The Steep…
The technical term for this is path dependence: an early decision constrains everything afterwards, not because it was right but because too much was built on top of it. Here…
Almost nothing in the animal world does what this does.
A great many animals signal. They warn, threaten, court and call, and the signal refers to the here and now…
Here is a question that has been asked for centuries and is still argued about on television panel shows: why does a mirror swap left and right but leave up…
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Most ancient monuments survive because they are made of something durable. Stone lasts. Metal lasts. Fired clay lasts. Their survival requires nothing from anybody.
There is a category of…