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How much gold is there in the world?
A five minute video. Did you know that 90% of recycled gold currently comes from jewelry? | learn more
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Typography is impossible.
“The practical guide to why laying out type never quite does what you want.” | learn more
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Behind each plastic bottle cap is a careful engineering process.
Heinz Ketchup, Sriracha, and Vita Coco have very innovative caps. “Let’s take a look at what goes into a few of these mechanical marvels with the help of our industrial CT scanner.” | learn more
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Lessons from shipbuilding productivity.
A deep look at how shipbuilding improved over time. This is a set of two articles written to draw analogies between shipbuilding and building construction. | learn more
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What it costs to rent the world’s largest charter yacht for a week.
“The Flying Fox is 136 metres long and every millimetre is custom made.” | learn more
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Painting yourself into a corner.
I used this metaphor and a friend noted that this only makes sense if you’re painting the floor. The Ngram chart implies people started doing this in the early 20th century. | learn more
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Cunningham’s law.
“The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.” | learn more (but not much more)
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This city does not exist.
Imagine a webpage that uses AI to invent an entirely new satellite map every time you hit refresh. Reminiscent of this word does not exist from late 2021. | learn more
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Some kind of loophole.
“Its tiny train slowly bumps back and forth, going approximately nowhere. And it’s now at the center of a massive court battle between its operators and the U.S. federal government.” | learn more
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Why are so many writers in Brooklyn, and is it a problem?
“The problem isn’t that writing generates status, but rather that this status is grossly out of proportion to the wages they are earning in the market. Amongst other problems, this selects for people who value status over wages (often because […]