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There is an assumption about milling that the word itself encourages, and it is wrong in an interesting way.
The assumption is crushing: two heavy stones pressed together, grain…
There is a way of making things that works from the inside out, and it produces shapes no other method can.
Almost every other approach is subtractive or formative: material…
There is a useful test of how hard something is to make: look at what people did before they had it.
Before metal needles, sewing was done with points made…
There is a tool so ordinary that almost nobody has considered how it works, and the answer turns out to be more particular than expected.
The obvious model is a…
There is a common assumption that sealing a letter was about privacy, and it misses what the object was for.
A seal provides no privacy whatsoever. Anybody determined to read…
There is a contradiction at the centre of making charcoal that explains everything about how it was done.
The wood has to be heated to a high temperature, and the…