It’s hard to untangle the conflicting feelings of grief, frustration, exacerbation, guilt, complicity, and denial that swill around with the millions of barrels spewing from the seafloor wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.  Progress in capping the well is maddeningly slow, perhaps because BP is only pursuing solutions that would…

Clarke presents a solution of what promises to be a problem of the physical legacy of the early history of space exploration: what to do with obsolete but significant space hardware? The inevitable end of the International Space Station’s (ISS) lifecycle is perhaps the most significant chance to begin to answer this question…

I’m seeking funding for a little project over at Kickstarter.  I was inspired by the success of the Lasersaurus project initiated by Nor/d.  Hopefully, we’ll do as well as they are! I want to draw an assembly manual for a LACK coffee table from IKEA that documents every step of…

Heatherwick’s Shanghai Expo pavilion is a precious object for on our screen, one that we can seem to relate and place ourselves within and around without having to actually leave our chairs. If you haven’t seen the pictures/video of Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo AKA the…

The Mormons would make great interstellar pioneers. Today M.ammoth pointed me toward an article in the New Atlantis by Rand Simberg, an aerospace engineer and blogger.  Simberg lays out the fallacies as he and many in the aerospace community in NASA’s re-tread of the Apollo program.  In short, he calls the space agency and government to task…