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Lightning Farm 24 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am

[Image: Triggered lightning technology at the University of Florida's Lightning Research Group]. This past winter, I had the pleasure of traveling around south Florida with Smout Allen, Kyle Buchanan...

Combat Preservation 23 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm

[Image: A SWORDS unit firing; photo via National Defense Magazine]. A U.S. ground combat robot has been accessioned by the Smithsonian Institution to form part of a future museum display, National De...

Climate Change Archaeology 22 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm

New archaeological discoveries continue to be made as glacial ice patches melt, revealing their previously unknown contents. Teams of archaeologists and historians have taken to wandering around newly...

Offworld Metallurgy 20 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm

[Image: Ancient Egyptian jewelry made from meteorites; photo courtesy of UCL Petrie Museum/Rob Eagle]. X-ray analysis has found that "ancient Egyptian iron beads held at the UCL Petrie Museum were ha...

Tensioned Suspension 15 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm

[Image: "Cavity Mechanism #12 w/ Glass Dome" (2013) by Dan Grayber]. We've looked at the work of Bay Area sculptor Dan Grayber here before, but he's got a small show of new work opening up at Oakland...

Chocolate Mill 14 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am

In response to a description featured in an earlier post about "space truffles," designer (and occasional photographer) Nick Foster pointed me to the video featured below. Originally released last yea...

Landscape Futures Arrives 14 Aug 2013 | 01:12 am

[Image: Internal title page from Landscape Futures; book design by Everything-Type-Company]. At long last, after a delay from the printer, Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural In...

Wood Grain Cosmogram 13 Aug 2013 | 06:05 am

The previous post, looking at the possibility of an object that could be carved, whittled, and reduced infinitely, each section revealing new, fractal details, reminded me of two short films we showed...

Voices Loom 13 Aug 2013 | 03:50 am

[Image: A telephone tower in Stockholm, Sweden, courtesy of the Tekniska Museet]. Trying to catch up on the huge variety of things saved over the summer while out on our most recent jaunt for Venue, ...

Space Truffle 12 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm

[Image: From Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard]. One of the perils of spending most of the summer away from blogging, I suppose, is that it's so easy to miss interesting projects. Something that made t...

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