What makes a sea crossing different from every other way of covering the same distance is that you can see the distance being covered, and you are free to move…
This is not about equipment or technique. Almost all excess baggage is a decision problem rather than a folding problem, and the decisions are made before anything goes in the…
The useful way to look at any blade is as a solution to a specific material. Something dense, something soft, something with skin, something that must not be crushed -…
The thing worth understanding first is that a rope is not a long thing. It is an enormous number of short things arranged so that pulling on the assembly squeezes…
The useful way to think about any bond is as a chain with three links - surface, adhesive, surface - and a chain fails at whichever link is weakest. Here…
There is an enormous quantity of food on this planet that almost nothing can eat.
Cellulose makes up the structural walls of plant cells, which means it constitutes the bulk…