Mars destroys tires — so NASA reinvented the wheel by giving it a memory
Engineers at NASA have reinvented the wheel by making a nearly invincible woven-mesh design that "remembers" its ideal shape and springs back into form.
Building Mars Colony Transports & Spaceports with Frame Making Machines
How can we make large structures in space? By using machines designed to create large frameworks in space we can build massive spaceports, fuel depots, and M...
Tesla Vegan Leather Seats — How Not To Destroy The Rainforest
Leather remains a lucrative commodity and a big problem for many automotive brands, which are being linked to the environmental degradation of the Amazon rainforest.
The Fashion Industry Is Destroying Our Planet. Can We Fix It?
A run-through of the destructive practices common in the fashion industry and what needs to change
Ethical Style: How Your Leather Jacket Is Destroying the Environment
Tracking the ecological footprint of your leather shoes.
The more we learn about memory, the weirder it gets
What is memory? The past few years have seen an explosion in our understanding of the answer to that seemingly simple question.
How To Implement Virtual Memory, Part 3
We saw earlier how to use the MMU in your x86 processor (or almost any other modern processor) to space-shift your system’s memory. You can make memory appear to move around in the address space, y…
Take The Apple Logo Test: Explains Why Everyday Memory Is So Poor
How Adobe Reinvented The Pen To Draw On The Internet
What is the future of the cloud-connected interface? How about a simple pen and ruler?
Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?
How to Artyarns Instruction on Spiral Plying on a Spinning Wheel
Morgan from Paradise Fibers demonstrates how to use some of your own thick and thin hand spun yarn and combine it with some commercially spun fibers for a un...
How Does Your Brain Create and Archive Memories?
The life sciences industry has long been intrigued by the idea of memories. Where they come from, how they are made, and how we access them are just a few of their most interesting questions. It’s easy to compare the human brain to a computer, [...]
New Map of Meaning in the Brain Changes Ideas About Memory
Researchers have mapped hundreds of semantic categories to the tiny bits of the cortex that represent them in our thoughts and perceptions. What they discovered might change our view of memory.
How to Spinning Wheel Technique for Trapping Locks to create Artyarns
Morgan shows just how easy and fun it is to create your own Artyarn using some homespun yarn and some locks on the Paradise Fibers Revolution Jumbo Flyer. En...
Abby Smith Rumsey: “Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose?”
Memory technologies from papyrus to print have given humans a unique survival advantage, allowing us to accumulate knowledge. These technologies shape our pe...
How Quantum Evolution with Memory is Generated in a Time-Local Way
Time lag in how an environment responds to a quantum device complicates analyses of these systems, but an elegant workaround provides a way to proceed as if there were no lag at all.
When did we stop caring about memory management?
This post is neither a rant nor a complaint, but rather, an observation. There's some amazing work happening over in ...
