Tag: steam engine
The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained
Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy.
In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature
If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity.
What to Fear? Jay Richards’s The Human Advantage Is Out!
The scary thing about AI and related advances in technology is not what it will to do us — like put us all out of work — but what we’ll do with it to ourselves and each other.
I Believe in the Evolution of Life and the Evolution of Automobiles
We talk about the “evolution” of automobiles, yet we know there was design at every stage of this evolution.