The first 20 minutes of “Dune: Prophecy” certainly leaned into the dense lore and history of the universe. The series begins by recounting the humans’ long and bloody war against the “thinking ...
Long before the advent of personal computers, inventors and researchers created what they called “teaching machines” in hopes of revolutionizing education. Some of these creations date back to the ...
As I was reading Audrey Watters’s Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning, recently published by MIT Press, the word “landmark” kept occurring to me.[1] This is a landmark book. It is ...
Toby Brooks is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, and a freelance author. He is currently building a wild 2006 Mustang GT Pro Streeter he hopes ...
Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because history is replete ...
IN Cornhill, Boston, thirty years ago, there was a shop for the manufacture and repair of nautical instruments and philosophical apparatus, kept by Ari Davis. Mr. Davis was a very ingenious mechanic, ...
If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...
In Colorado, the 12,000 square foot Lee Maxwell Washing Museum is running out of space. Lee Maxwell, 93, has been collecting washing machines since 1985. In 1992, he opened the Lee Maxwell Washing ...
Toby Brooks is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, Texas, and a freelance author. He is currently building a wild 2006 Mustang GT Pro Streeter he hopes ...
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