[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, and nearly two dozen students from Unit 11 at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Florida's variable...
Climate Change Archaeology
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 exposed ground in locations as diverse as Norway, the Alps, and Glacier National Park. Animal bones...
Combat Preservation
[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 Defense Magazine reports. The robot, one of the first to be sent into live combat—specifically, into Iraq...
Offworld Metallurgy
[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 hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather than iron ore," Science Daily reports. "The objects, which trace...
Tensioned Suspension
[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's Johansson Projects gallery next month and it seems worth stopping by. [Image: Another view of "Cavity...
