Author Archives
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Chasing Storms and Lightning Strikes
Probably the most crucial and trickiest part of shooting storms is planning. I usually look 24 hours in advance to see if there’s anything brewing in the forecast, but things can change quickly. In the past, I’ve seen a 100%… Read More ›
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Ikea catalogues from 1950 onwards
This is a bit of a rabbit hole this one and once you start looking it is hard to stop. Take some time to browse the catalogues and be grateful that some of these designs are no longer fashionable.
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What Actually Makes Water Roll Off a Duck’s Back?
Ducks and geese spend a lot of time preening their all-weather feathers. This obsessive grooming – and a little styling wax from a hidden spot on their back side – maintains the microscopic feather structure that keeps them warm and… Read More ›
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The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods
“Don’t tell anyone,” one of my neighbors told me when he came over to borrow some chlorine tablets, “but we’re thinking to ride this whole thing out in Zurich, where the numbers are better.” His wife still has her European… Read More ›
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Inside Cameo
Which is where Cameo comes in. The site boasts more than 30,000 “celebrities” across a plethora of industries from entertainment to sports to social media to business, all available to deliver individually-tailored missives at the touch of a button. All… Read More ›
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A Ural sidecar rigged up as a mobile cafe
This ‘cafe racer’ (get it?) is the work of Jason Leppa and Sean Taylor at Gasoline Motor Co. They built it for The Alternative Dairy Co., as a vehicle to promote its new range of plant-based dairy alternatives. Gasoline nailed… Read More ›
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The Avanguardia
The heart of the design is the “swan head” that functions as a control tower and can adjust the position of the yacht by lowering itself into the boat’s body. It can also fold down into the water, forming a… Read More ›
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The Flying-V
The Flying-V was designed as a fuel-efficient, long-range aircraft in which the passenger seating, fuel tanks and baggage hold are built into the wings. Research shows that the unusual design stands to gain up to 20 percent better fuel efficiency… Read More ›
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The Tech My Dad Banned From Our House
You see, my dad was a hardware engineer. He didn’t talk much about the work he did, which I think involved designing circuit boards and working on EMVs—those chips we all have in our debit and credit cards. But his… Read More ›
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MCGST Episode 7 (Apple, conspiracies, living at work)
In this episode my wife, Joanne, and I talk about how Apple manages to create entire families of customers and how it helped them reach a $2 trillion valuation, and also her views on Apple products and how they work… Read More ›
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